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[Andrew John Hughes]

2008/12/29 Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>:
> Andrew,
>
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Andrew John Hughes
> <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> IcedTea[7] (http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea) already has a
>> --with-project=bsd option for supporting using the BSD tree in place
>> of the main JDK7 tree.  It just needs testing.  I think supporting the
>> use of BSD as an alternate icedTea build is the better solution long
>> term.  All it really needs is someone will to try building on Mac
>> OS/BSD and to maintain it long-term by supplying us with patches.
>> No-one currently on the IcedTea team uses BSD or Mac OS X (AFAIK) but
>> we're certainly open to more contributors and to supporting more
>> platforms.  I'd much prefer this to forking zero support.  There are
>> also other features such as the web plugin, web start support, etc. in
>> IcedTea that may be useful for BSD and Mac OS X users.
>
> I made a quick attempt at building icedtea7 on OS X.  The autogen.sh fails
> with the following:
> onfigure.ac:4: installing `./config.guess'
> configure.ac:4: installing `./config.sub'
> configure.ac:2: installing `./install-sh'
> Makefile.am:1304: variable `PULSEAUDIO_SOURCES' is defined but no program or
> Makefile.am:1304: library has `PULSEAUDIO' as canonic name (possible typo)
> Makefile.am:1227: variable `JTREG_SOURCES' is defined but no program or
> Makefile.am:1227: library has `JTREG' as canonic name (possible typo)
>

These are just warnings. I should probably use different names for
these variables though so automake doesn't make the wrong assumption
about them.

> Also, I was not able to find IcedTea7 specific instructions.  Are there any?
>

INSTALL and README in the IcedTea7 sources.
Most things are the same; IcedTea6 regularly gets merged over to 7.
The main difference is 7 supports --with-project=x so you can build
the bsd ports tree, nio2, caciocavallo, etc.

> Michael
> <snip>
>
>>
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