howto jvn openjdk-b138 64bit amd64

[David Holmes]

I've answered this back on the build list where it was originally asked.

David

luxInteg said the following on 04/19/11 03:32:
> Greetings,
> 
> I just 'built?' openJDK-b138 on a computer with these
> (cpu amd64, OS bblfs 64-bit lnux, gcc-4.5.2, make 3.82,Xorg-7.6   I had some 
> help from the build-list)
> 
> I installed  the j2sdk-image  like so 
> 
> cd build/linux-amd64/j2sdk-image
> cp -vR bin include jre lib man demo /path/to/wherever
> chmod root:root  /path/to/wherever
> 
> when I then tried to run ant  ( with ant -v )  I discovered there is no j-vm
> "
>  There was an error trying to initialize the HPI library.
>  Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
>  Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
>  
>  #--------- an ls of ~/jre/bin shows there is no jvm
>  
>  root [ /opt/openJDK/jre/bin ]# ls -l
>  total 244
>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   6832 Apr 17 22:40 java
>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7023 Apr 17 22:40 keytool
>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7215 Apr 17 22:40 orbd
>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7055 Apr 17 22:40 pack200
>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7071 Apr 17 22:40 policytool
>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7023 Apr 17 22:40 rmid
>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7023 Apr 17 22:40 rmiregistry
>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7039 Apr 17 22:40 servertool
>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7247 Apr 17 22:40 tnameserv
>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 170103 Apr 17 22:40 unpack200
>  root [ /opt/openJDK/jre/bin ]
>  
>  
> A closer inspection of  the prebuild sanity check showed
> 
> WARNING: You are not building the HOTSPOT sources.
>          Hotspot libs will be obtained from 
>          the location set in ALT_HOTSPOT_IMPORT_PATH.
> 
> All attempts to  set   build variables  (for HOTSPOT-building)  descrided in  
> the build.html  file   have not been successful.
> 
> I would be grateful for some advice of how   a JVM  can be built from the 
> current sources of openjdk7.
> 
> yours sincerely
> luxInteg