IcedTea updated to b21

Lillian Angel langel at redhat.com
Sat Sep 29 12:22:31 PDT 2007


Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 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.
>   

Hmmm, I am not sure why this would happen. Did it not download the 
correct b21 source the first time you ran make?


Lillian

> Matt Flaschen
>   




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