Icedtea6 with CACAO jit for ARM EABI softfloat systems. Packaging tips?

[Xerxes Rånby]

Dalibor Topic skrev:
> On 25/08/2008 13:51, Xerxes Rånby wrote:
>> Greetings!
>> Last week Icedtea got served with CACAO JIT for debian armel 
>> softfloat systems:
>> some screenshots here: http://labb.zafena.se/?p=1
> Very cool - congrats, in particular for the coolest display of slime 
> volleyball in ages. ;)
>> How do to best package it into .debs for testing? Im not that 
>> familiar with the debian way of distributing packages.
> I think the best way would be to contribute your fixes to appropriate 
> places (Cacao & OpenJDK/IcedTea), and make sure the debian cacao-oj6 
> packages contain them. See 
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cacao-oj6.html for details.
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
Thank you for the pointer into the guts of the debian build cycle!

I very impressed with the debian porters and to my suprise the debian 
build machines had actually made both a sucessful compile and done 
packing of the OpenJDK6 with cacao 0.99.3 sources four days before i 
finnished my own build using the mercurial sources.
http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=cacao-oj6
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=cacao-oj6;ver=6b11-1;arch=armel;stamp=1218889974
Im stunned of the impressive work made by the debian maintainers to get 
openjdk with cacao jit shipped.
Kudos to Matthias Klose, Torsten Werner and Michael Koch!

It would be great to get these packages into Lenny for armel users!

Cheers and have a great day!
Xerxes