Unable to compile IcedTea with CACAO under Fedora 17

[Greg Johnson]

>Is there some special reason you need CACAO?

Performance.

I'm working with Java applications on low-powered devices -- currently the Raspberry Pi. Initially I was using the Debian distro, but I'm partial to the Red Hat world. ;-) The Java performance on the Fedora 17 Remix version of Java is very poor compared to the versions available on Debian. The Debian version uses Zero VM (mixed mode). The Fedora version of Zero VM uses interpreted mode. So I had it recommended to me to try Cacao, as it's performance on ARM is reported to be "quite good". It's not available in the Fedora repositories, so I reached out to attempt to build my own. And that has led me to where I'm at now. :-)
Have I received poor advice? Is Cacao something I shouldn't be interested in?
I guess I could always go back to Debian. :-(
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