Porting OpenJDK to ARMEL

[Christian Thalinger]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 13:55 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Christian Thalinger wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 13:41 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> >> 1.  OpenJDK is not set up to cross-compile. 
> >>     It builds its tools natively.  Fixing this would be nice, but a
> >>     huge task.
> > 
> > Well, it kind of works.  I cross-compiled IcedTea for ARM[1], although
> > it did not build the whole thing as I'm missing some libraries and
> > headers.
> > 
> > But yes, there are problems.
> 
> Sure, but you didn't build it, at least not according to that blog
> entry -- you just took a j2re-image from an x86_64 build and cross-compiled
> CACAO.  So what part of OpenJDK itself was cross-compiled?

The native libraries.

- twisti