IcedTea7 HEAD build error on RHEL 5 x86_64

[Pavel Tisnovsky]

Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Pavel Tisnovsky <ptisnovs at redhat.com> [2011-09-22 09:53]:
>> Deepak Bhole wrote:
>>> * Pavel Tisnovsky <ptisnovs at redhat.com> [2011-09-22 08:37]:
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> there's a new IcedTea7 build error thrown when IcedTea7 HEAD is build on RHEL 5 x86_64.
>>>>
>>>> Config log & shell script used to build IcedTea7 is stored in an attachment.
>>>>
>>> Is libattr-devel installed on the system?
>> Nope (and ./configure did not complaint ;-). I've installed it and trying to build IcedTea7 again.
>>
>> Maybe it's the right moment to update the wiki page http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/BuildRequirements
>>
>> Do you think it's a good idea to split this page to IcedTea6 part and IcedTea7(8) part?
>>
> 
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> Are the requirements radically different? From what I've seen, they are

No, the differences are subtle at this moment. So I'll add new required libraries with the remark that only IcedTea7
need them.

(and to be pedantic, I'll add note to a http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/FedoraBuildInstructions too ;)

> very similar if not the same for v6 and 7. If we can maintain the same
> page for both, I am all the more for it since it reduces changes of
> pages getting out of sync.
> 
> Cheers,
> Deepak