--with-openjdk bootstrap

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 12:57 Sun 01 Aug     , DJ Lucas wrote:
> On 08/01/2010 10:29 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > I don't really see why you want to use the --with-openjdk flag to
> > begin with.
> 
> Simplicity is the goal.  Rather than rebuilding gcc (to include gcj),
> then ecj, gcj-compat, the extra jars, etc., one download is provided to
> bootstrap the build.  Simply drop the extracted tarball into /opt, add
> the bin dir to path, and they are off and running, and it is easily
> removed after they are done with it.
> 

It's been a long while since I went through LFS, but I remember I used
to just build the initial gcc with gcj at the time.  Maybe that would be
an option for some users?  IcedTea shouldn't require much more than that.
You can disable Rhino using --without-rhino.

> I just figured I'd ask first before duplicating work that is already
> done (and am glad that I did).  I'm going to take a look at the
> --with-gcj-home option first, since that can be beneficial for more than
> myself, and see if I can get that going, but I'll be poking around in 7
> now as well, provide a local patch for the book if needs be.  :-)
> 

Let us know how you get on.  The eventual plan is to separate the options,
so you'd have --disable-bootstrap and --with-jdk-home as in IcedTea7.

> Thanks for the help.
> 
> -- DJ Lucas
> 
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