Randy McMurchy wrote: > Peter B. Steiger wrote these words on 07/19/07 18:50 CST: > > >> Good luck with that! I have built everything from source including >> OpenOffice at least once over the years, but I have never had much luck >> with JDK so now I just take the coward's way out and install the >> binaries. >> > > I just don't get it. You're not the first person to say they've had > trouble with the JDK. Me, it builds every time without fail. I'm > using a recently built JDK-6u2 right now without issues. > > Not to be s schmuck, but do you guys use the book's instructions to > build the JDK? If so, what is the issue? I just don't see it > (notwithstanding the recent discovery about friend-injection only > available in GCC-4.1.x). > > I haven't taken the plunge yet, I'm still deciding whether I want to take the plunge. The last time I tried, 6 months ago or something, I was getting compile errors that were corrected by a patch to workaround something in gcc. The patch wasn't the one mentioned in the book, I had to get help from the list.
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