Newbie Query

[Matthew Flaschen]

Amit Kumar Saha wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2007 11:07 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>> When you build IcedTea you have to download OpenJDK from Sun.
> 
> Does it work something like this:
> 
> 1. IcedTea builds Open JDK , but only when it has replaced the
> encumbered code by relevant GNU Classpath packages.

Correct, though not all the encumbered code gets a replacement.  Some is
simply removed (or replaced by stubs).

> 2. IcedTea uses 'gcj' for the compilation process.

It uses ecj as a compiler, but also requires libgcj, if I understand
correctly.

However, the preferred method of building IcedTea is now to bootrap;
i.e. an old version of IcedTea is used to build the new version of IcedTea.

Matt Flaschen