VisualVM 1.2.1 and IcedTea6

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/11/19 Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>:
> On 19.11.2009 13:24, Lillian Angel wrote:
>>
>> Andrew,
>>
>>
>> On 2009-11-19, at 11:38 AM, Tomas Hurka wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>
>>> On 19 Nov 2009, at 17:24, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We're getting this failure:
>>>>
>>>> BUILD FAILED
>>>>
>>>> /notnfs/nighttester/icedtea7-target-testing/netbeans/nbbuild/templates/projectized.xml:93:
>>>> The module org.jdesktop.layout
>>>> cannot be compiled against because it is part of the cluster
>>>>
>>>> /notnfs/nighttester/icedtea7-target-testing/netbeans/nbbuild/netbeans_visualvm/platform9
>>>> which is not part of cluster.path
>>>> in your suite configuration.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas what this means?
>>>
>>> You need to build it against NetBeans Platform 6.7.1
>>> (netbeans-platform-6.7.1-2.fc12.noarch). It looks like you are using older
>>> version.
>>
>> Be sure when we update IcedTea in Fedora, this is only applied as a patch
>> in Fedora 12 (and rawhide) and not updated in Fedora 10 or 11. Same case for
>> all other distributions, I just don't know if they build with
>> --enable-visualvm. We should update the docs to say 6.7.1 is required.
>
> other distributions build separate sources from a separate source package. I
> still don't see the value why visualvm needs to be built from IcedTea. But
> maybe somebody wants to add javadb as well in the future.
>

I've also never included it in the ebuilds for Gentoo -- it's
infeasible given it requires NetBeans which in turns requires the very
JDK being built.

It does work from the point of view of a personal build of IcedTea,
giving the builder a JDK with more of the features of the proprietary
JDK, which I believe includes this thing.

>  Matthias
>



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Andrew :-)

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