Newbie Query

[Andrew Haley]

Matthew Flaschen writes:
 > 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.

I wouldn't say it's preferred: building with ecj and with IcedTea
should both work.

Andrew.

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