Newbie Query

[Andrew Haley]

Andrew John Hughes writes:
 > 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, doesn't IcedTea still download the OpenJDK for you?  That was my
 > experience.

Yes, your computer does it for you when you run the IcedTea build
script.

Andrew.

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