hotspot building

[Andrew Bachmann]

Hi all,

Sorry for the lull in activity recently.  My hard drive got corrupted
and I had a house guest, so things got delayed.  But now I'm happy to
announce that I've managed to get the libjvm.so and related files
building completely on Haiku.  Here's a blog entry detailing the steps
to reproduce what I've done so far:

http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/andrewbachmann/2009-12-21_openjdk_hotspot_libjvmso_built_haiku

Next I am working on getting the jdk make files in order and adding in
the haiku awt and other support classes.  In the past, we used jikes
to compile these classes.  Unfortunately, even the most recent version
of jikes is now five years old and can't handle the generics that are
around now.  So, we need to use a different solution.

I know Michael was looking into this issue a little while ago.  Also,
I believe we can use remote hosting to compile the files, as well.

Happy holidays all!
-Andrew