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[Andrew John Hughes]

On 20/03/2008, Camel Aissani <camel.aissani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to contribute to the openjdk, but I wasn't able to find a
> document that explains how to make my first hack :(
> At this time, I have a fedora 8 distribution and I had compile the entire
> icedtea project.
>  Many thanks to Sylvain for your french wiki it was very useful ;-)
>

Well done for managing to compile it, but you should be able to just
install the IcedTea that comes with Fedora Core 8.

> Now I don't know if I can use an IDE to hack (Netbeans, eclipse...). Sorry
> for the purist...I am a javaboy and I like my IDE.

You can work with an IDE -- as David mentioned in his reply, there are
NetBeans project files to work from.  Emacs works just fine too.

> In many emails about icedtea, I read a lot of stuff arround Visual
> Studio...I hope that I will be able to hack without windows.
>

Erm... seems there's a little confusion here.  IcedTea is currently
the only way to obtain a completely Free OpenJDK.  It is centered on
building OpenJDK on GNU/Linux systems at present, and gets rid of the
proprietary encumbrances, as well as making the build much easier.

In short, the idea that you would need a proprietary operating system
running a proprietary IDE is completely contrary to the goals of
IcedTea :)

> Two days ago, I tried to compile the openjdk in debug mode. I failed...
> I read this article
> http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/11/29/building-the-jdk.html
> where there is a lot information.
>  Could you give me other links where I can find a simpliest way to compile
> the jdk on fedora?
>

Using IcedTea :)

I believe there are various debug options you can specify, but someone
better acquainted with working on IcedTea (Lillian? Tom F? Gary?)
would be better placed to answer that.

> Cheers
> Camel
>

Cheers,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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