Newbie Query

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 08/11/2007, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Amit Kumar Saha writes:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I am just trying to understand IcedTea better. I came across these
> > lines in the FAQ
> >
> > "IcedTea is a build harness for the OpenJDK that provides stubs and
> > GNU Classpath replacements for the encumbered binary plugs, and allows
> > the OpenJDK to be bootstrapped against GCJ. It is not a fork of the
> > OpenJDK, and doesn't contain the OpenJDK source code. "
> >
> > Could someone here please tell me what exactly do they mean? I am
> > aware of the encumbrances in Open JDK and I also have an idea about
> > GNU Classpath. If it does not contain Open JDK source code, whose
> > source code is it using for the non-encumbered portion?
>
> When you build IcedTea you have to download OpenJDK from Sun.
>
> Andrew.
>
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Andrew, doesn't IcedTea still download the OpenJDK for you?  That was my
experience.


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