What's the status?

[Dalibor Topic]

William Tracy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What's the progress on the port? 
The typical challenge when porting to a new platform is that
bootstrapping requires a recent enough C++ compiler, and a recent enough
Java compiler and implementation, since some parts of the
build system require a Java compiler (and the only useful ones for the
task are written in Java).

I spoke with Andrew Bachmann a few months ago, who was at the time
travelling, and working on removing the dependency on Java in the
bootstrapping process. He had a patch that translated the MakeDeps
program into C++, though I don't think the patch has been published yet.
Meanwhile, we have mercurial access enabled to the OpenJDK repositories,
so it shouldn't be too hard to clone the OpenJDK 7 tree, apply the
patch, and get started with the port.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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