Unable to build icedtea6

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/10/27 Tomas Hurka <Tomas.Hurka at sun.com>:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On 27 Oct 2009, at 14:35, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>
>> 2009/10/27 Tomas Hurka <Tomas.Hurka at sun.com>:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> I am working on integration of VisualVM 1.2 in IcedTea, but I am unable
>>> to
>>> build icedtea6 repository on FC 12 beta. Can somebody help me find out
>>> what
>>> is wrong? If you need more information, please let me know. See the build
>>> error below:
>
> [..]
>>
>> This is an issue with the new version of X.org on rawhide.  There is a
>> patch in the Fedora RPM (cvs -d
>> :pserver:anonymous at cvs.fedoraproject.org:/cvs/pkgs co
>> java-1.6.0-openjdk) but it isn't general enough to apply to IcedTea as
>> is.  So you either need to apply the patch locally or use F11 or
>> earlier.
>
> I can use F11, but I need netbeans-platform-6.7.1-2.fc12.noarch for VisualVM
> 1.2. AFAIK This is available only if F12. Can I install it into F11?
>
> Bye,
> --
> Tomas Hurka   <mailto:tomas.hurka at sun.com>
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> Software Engineer, Developer Platforms Group
> Sun Microsystems, Praha Czech Republic
>
>
>
>

Then applying the patch I mentioned is probably the best route.  This
is used for the rawhide OpenJDK RPMs.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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