porting OpenJDK to a different OS not having java

[Daniel Testa]

Ok, by the moment I'm trying to build gcj and IcedTea. I'll let you
know how it goes.

Thanks to all of you for your help.


On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Landon Fuller <landonf at plausible.coop> wrote:
>
> 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 an 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
>
>