VisualVM in IcedTea6

[Andrew John Hughes]

2008/7/30 Joshua Sumali <jsumali at redhat.com>:
> 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
>

So just ./configure and make will do? with the visualvm option obviously.

-- 
Andrew :-)

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