On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:59 AM, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/28/2011 05:28 AM, luxInteg wrote: > > Greetings > > > > I want to have a go at building openjdk using icedtea. > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/icedtea6.html > > I notice that a binary is needed presumeably for so-called > 'bootstraping' > > and the one available from blfs is for 32-bit pentium cpu's. I am > dabbling > > with 64-bit amdK(8+} cpu's. > > > > Does anyone know of a 'bootstrapping' icetea binary for amd64's OR > > whether such is redundant and if so how to compile icetea without the > > prebuilt binary.? > > > > thanks in advance > > > > luxInteg > > > > > > I just built and put up binary packages on anduin a couple of days ago > for both archs. It is possible to build icedtea6 without the binary > version, but your configure flags will be a lot longer (and you can drop > the upstream patch). You'll need to simulate a full JDK Home environment > via symlinks. > > FYI, The binaries that are placed on anduin are debug images (IOW, I > have not stripped libjvm.so in client or server VMs). Currently the book > does not mention this, but I'll update the book in a few moments anyway, > and add a note later. Stipped libjvm.so client goes from about ~70MB to > ~4MB on x86 with the 1.8.x (I haven't bothered with 1.9.x). There is no > client VM in x86_64 (makes a huge difference in size between x86 and > x86_64). Both contain server, and that too can be stripped with similar > results. Give me about fifteen minutes, up and rebuild your local copy > (else it'll be in the book after tonight's render job). > > -- DJ Lucas It has always been my dream to build java w/o the binary part. -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com
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