JNLP failures building latest hg of IcedTea

[Andrew John Hughes]

2008/10/3 Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu>:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>> However, I don't think my system is updated enough to do an ecj build.
>>>
>>
>> It should be; I managed to use it to build on Debian etch on Wednesday...
>
> I don't have libgcj-4.3.*.jar.
>

As I said, --with-libgcj-jar=<path to IcedTea's rt.jar> would fix this.

>>> I was able to successfuly do a --with-icedtea build after removing the
>>> extra-lib/about.jar target, which depends on
>>> stamps/extra-class-files.stamp.  The built IcedTea7 contains
>>> Launcher.class (though I'm not sure when in the build this gets
>>> compiled), so I was able to use this to build unmodified latest hg.
>>>
>>
>> It sounds like you effectively did a hacked-up variant of the ecj build.
>> The naming is perhaps a misnomer.  The ecj build is the default, and uses
>> your system jdk to build IcedTea.
>
> I don't think so, unless I'm reading the Makefile totally wrong.  I was
> still using an old copy of IcedTea to build a new IcedTea; I just
> skipped a very small part of the build (about.jar).  My patch to the
> Makefile is attached.
>
> Now, of course, I can use my "new" IcedTea to build without the little
> hack (and have done so to test).
>
> Matt Flaschen
>



-- 
Andrew :-)

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