IcedTea/OpenJDK bootstrapping issue

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> writes:

> 2010/1/21 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>:

[...]

>>>> (Full build log at
>>>> <http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/tmp/icedtea-1.6.1.20100121.log>.)

[...]

> Your ant build is not finding the rt.jar with the classfiles.  It
> actually reports an error about tools.jar:
>
> Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in
> /nix/store/j4zypm6zmkffn3dqphijb6wfr7wv88xz-gcj-4.4.2/lib/tools.jar

Why does it expect it in this particular path?  Which package does
‘tools.jar’ normally come with?  (Sorry, I’m not very familiar with the
Java environment as you can see...)

> Does ant work for you with other builds?

Yes.  This version of Ant was built with GCJ.  It was then used to
compile things like Xalan, Xerces, and Rhino.

Thanks,
Ludo’.