building from the sources

[Raffaello Giulietti]

I'm getting into troubles with the binary snapshot, so I decided to
build from the sources.

I once managed to build OpenJDK on Ubuntu 9.04/VirtualBox/Vista.

Now, browsing through the building instructions found at
http://wikis.sun.com/display/mlvm/Building I'm wondering what the
dependencies between mlvm and the bsd-port are. According to this page,
the repo is found at http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port so it
seems at first sight that mlvm is currently targeted only at this platform.

Am I wrong?
What about Linux?

Thanks
Raffaello