porting OpenJDK to a different OS not having java

[Landon J Fuller]

On Feb 2, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Daniel Testa wrote:

> Hi all, I'm trying to port OpenJDK 6 to Minix3 but when run "gmake
> all" it says that "ant", along with other software, is needed. Ant
> needs java to run but I don't have java on Minix3 thus is why I'm
> trying to port OpenJDK.
> 
> Is there any other way to build OpenJDK without having java
> preinstalled? at least a minimum set to be able to run "ant" and build
> the package in the default way.
> 
> Any thoughts? advice on how to build and/or port?

Havard Eidnes came up with a handy approach that uses NFS+SSH with a supported platform to bootstrap a new platform:
	http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2008-February/000080.html

I've used Havard's scripts to bootstrap FreeBSD/sparc and Mac/PPC.

-landonf