IcedTea updated to b21
Matthew Flaschen
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Sep 28 13:57:28 PDT 2007
Lillian Angel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have updated IcedTea to b21. Also, we have made the decision to
> remove the ECJ support. The --with-icedtea option has been made default.
>
> Now, IcedTea bootstraps against a system installed IcedTea or a
> previously built version of IcedTea. For Fedora users, IcedTea can be
> installed through yum and IcedTea-b21 can be built as normal:
>
> ./configure (ICEDTEA_HOME defaults to /usr/lib/jvm/java-icedtea)
> make
>
> For all other distributions, it is mandatory that you have another
> version of IcedTea built (b19 or less). The tarballs for all the
> releases are available here: http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source.
>
> To build:
> ./configure
> --with-icedtea-home=/path/to/icedtea/openjdk/control/build/linux-{arch}/j2sdk-image/
>
> make
>
>
> Also, Ant is a new build requirement.
>
>
> Please let us know if anything is broken.
For some reason, I had to run:
make -B stamps/download.stamp
to make it download the latest OpenJDK.
Matt Flaschen
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