Hi Douglas, On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 00:27 -0800, Douglas Felt wrote: > I'm running into multiple errors trying to build openjdk 7 on ubuntu > 8.10. I downloaded the sources from > http://www.java.net/download/openjdk/jdk7/promoted/b40/openjdk-7-ea-src-b40-20_nov_2008.zip > as listed on http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk7/. > [...] > > Is my version of gcc too new? The information on > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html > is only current as of ubuntu 7.10, and mentions older versions of some > packages. Is there a more recent list of build tools for ubuntu? > > gcc-4.3 seems to be an indirect dependency of eclipse. It's not clear > if i can downrev it to 4.1 and use the debian eclipse install. > > Anyway, what should I do?
You might want to try out the IcedTea build system. http://icedtea.classpath.org/ That will give you a simple configure style detection of the tools and it will set all the necessary flags and it contains patches and workarounds for various build issues with newer or older GNU/Linux tools. There are currently two variants: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6 for tracking openjdk6 (b12). http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea for tracking openjdk7 (b40). Distro specific help can also be gotten on the mailinglist: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/distro-pkg-dev Cheers, Mark
