Compiling Hotspot w/o dependencies

[James Melvin]

Hi,

Use 'make hotspot' to only build hotspot. It looks like you tried to
build the entire JDK and ran into a sanity check error for the class
libraries. Building hotspot should only run the hotspot sanity check.

Good Luck!

Jim


Xiaobin Lu wrote:
> J K wrote:
>> Can hotspot be compiled on Linux (32 or 64bit) without the 
>> dependencies documented in openjdk/README-builds.html ?
>>   
> Hotspot can be compiled on Linux 32 /64 bit without much dependencies 
> required. All you need is to get gcc, g++ and a bootstrap jdk. Refer to 
> the build readme document for more details.
>> I work at a company with restrictive IT policies and new software 
>> versions are prohibited.
>>
>> 1. 
>> http://www.java.net/download/openjdk/jdk7/promoted/b54/openjdk-7-ea-src-b54-09_apr_2009.zip 
>>
>> 2. unzip
>> 3. cd openjdk
>> 4. make
>>
>> …
>> ERROR: FreeType version  2.3.0  or higher is required.
>>  make[2]: Entering directory 
>> `/home/hodben/openjdk/jdk/make/tools/freetypecheck'
>> Required version of freetype: 2.3.0
>> Detected freetype headers: 2.1.9
>> Failed: headers are too old.
>> Detected freetype library: 2.1.9
>> Failed: too old library.
>> make[2]: Leaving directory 
>> `/nfs/hodben/tarballs/openjdk/jdk/make/tools/freetypecheck'
>>   
> You might need to search for more recent freetype rpm for your linux 
> system based on the error message.
> 
> -Xiaobin