On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Andrew John Hughes < gnu_and...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> 2009/11/15 Michael Franz <mvfr...@gmail.com>: > > Eric, > > > > I have encountered this issue before. I am not sure what I did to fix > it. > > I think I used ecj instead of the Apple javac. Check the javac perl > script > > that IcedTea has. The other option is to apply this patch in the > required > > build files. > > > > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/ecj/01/webrev.01/make/build.xml.udiff.html<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eandrew/ecj/01/webrev.01/make/build.xml.udiff.html> > > > > That patch is in OpenJDK: > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/langtools/rev/2aa3a1cdb094 > > > Here is my initial post on this > > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2009-August/006857.html > > > > If I remember correctly, there is a tool that is compiled by ant (the two > in > > the output), but it is not compiled with Java 5 byte code. When ant > tries > > to run the tool you get that error. > > > > I would switch to using ecj, as you might be able to get past this issue, > > there is another issue that will come up and ecj acts differently than > javac > > and you really need the ecj way of doing things. This is my original > email > > on this: > > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2009-August/006879.html > > > > ecj is currently the only supported method for doing a build without > --disable-bootstrap, but that may change in the future. > Note that a normal OpenJDK build requires a Sun-based implementation > of Java 6, due to dependence on com.sun classes and AWT classes that > are part of the 1.6 specification. We do our best to get round this > for IcedTea bootstrapping, but that testing is based on ecj+gcj not > Apple's products. > > It is possible to build IcedTea 1.11 using Apple's JDK 5 with ecj and the bsd port repo. There are hoops to jump through, but it works. I mostly worked on this since I could no-longer build OpenJDK 7 with a previous OpenJDK 7 and could not figure out why it was not working. Using the IcedTea bootstrap process was simpler and should help in bring zero/shark to PowerPC Macs. Michael
