FW: Porting OpenJDK 6 to Stratus OpenVOS on IA32 -- crossdevelopment??

[Barnes, Richard]

I would be happy to hear from you.

Thanks,

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Thalinger [mailto:twisti at complang.tuwien.ac.at] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:28 AM
To: Barnes, Richard
Cc: Dalibor.Topic at Sun.COM; Mark Wielaard; Jonathan Springer; porters-dev at openjdk.java.net; Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Subject: RE: FW: Porting OpenJDK 6 to Stratus OpenVOS on IA32 -- crossdevelopment??


On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 11:18 -0400, Barnes, Richard wrote:
> Dalibor, Mark, and Jonathan,
> 
> Thank you for your responses to my question about cross development.  I
> think we will follow the suggestions that involve using a remote JDK for
> the Java portion of the port.  That will hopefully avoid any problems of
> distinguishing between host and target in the Makefiles and xml files in
> the porting base.

I can only talk about the JDK portion, because I use a different VM on
cross-compiled platforms, but cross-compiling the JDK works
perfectly (except one small glitch).  I could give you some hints if
that helps.

- Christian