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.

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