VisualVM in IcedTea6

[Joshua Sumali]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2008/7/30 Joshua Sumali <jsumali at redhat.com>:
>   
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>     
>>> 2008/7/30 Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Joshua Sumali schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> VisualVM is now buildable with IcedTea6 on 32 and 64 bit arch by passing
>>>>> --enable-visualvm to configure. Details and screenshots can be found at
>>>>> http://jsumali.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/visualvm-in-icedtea/
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Thanks for preparing this. Is there an advantage of building this as part
>>>> of
>>>> IcedTea? From a first look the build seems to be independent from
>>>> building
>>>> "core" IcedTea. It delays the build, increases the source code size, and
>>>> adds
>>>> the burden to review licenses for another 30MB compressed source code.
>>>> Does the
>>>> IcedTea project have to have just one product to deliver, or could this
>>>> be
>>>> splitted out into a second delivery?
>>>>
>>>>  Matthias
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Have to say I wondered what was going on when I saw the ChangeLog entry,
>>> and I still don't understand the reasoning.  Is there a reason this
>>> has to be built WITH the
>>> VM?  If it's a truly separate application, then building them against
>>> each other is a job
>>> for a distro.  Otherwise, the next logical step is --with-eclipse,
>>> --with-jboss, --with-glassfish, etc.
>>>
>>>       
>> I should've written better instructions :)
>>
>> Building visualvm can be done with a simple `make visualvm`. It would
>> require an icedtea-ecj build or a precompiled openjdk (--with-openjdk passed
>> to configure) to build with, but it definitely does not need to build
>> IcedTea along with it.
>>
>> Sorry for the confusion.
>> Josh
>>
>>     
>
> So am I right in thinking:
>
> ./configure <options>
> make
> make visualvm
>
> would get me an OpenJDK build with visualvm in j2sdk-image/bin?
>   
No, it would only build netbeans7, platform2, and visualvm. The actual 
"dropping-in" of visualvm occurs right after IcedTea is built. It 
happens at the same time as the dropping in of 
gcjwebplugin/icedteaplugin (stamps/icedtea.stamp target in Makefile.am).

Josh