On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:31 +0530, ramakanth varala wrote: > My target is to get openjdk build for target board (ARM) . > > In the process i thought i would build openjdk first to my host > machine i.e of fedora 8.
Fedora 8 is very outdated (3 years old). Although IcedTea (7) has been bootstrapped on it, it isn't maintained anymore. You might have better luck if you update to a more modern version (Fedora 14 is the latest). > Iam confused of lot of things here > > 1) what is icedtea ? IcedTea is a fully free Java Runtime and Development Environment. Build upon OpenJDK extended with developer, user and web browser tools like an Applet viewer, Java Webstart (LiveConnect and JNLP) support and VisualVM, a lightweight profiler and troubleshooting tool. Bootstraps with and provides alternative runtimes, tools and class library support for Java and Java-like environments, like the Zero interpreter, Shark JIT, GCJ native compiler, GNU Classpath core libraries and Cacao. See http://icedtea.classpath.org/ > 2) How is icedtea related to openjdk? OpenJDK is a free reference implementation for the Java Standard Edition Developer Kit. Includes an execution environment, development tools and a class library for the Java programming language. IcedTea extends this. > 3) can i build this for the arm board ? Yes, it should natively build on an arm board. But that might be slow, so you might want to cross-compile... > 4) can you point me to proper documentation where i can get a clear > picture of cross-compilation to arm? See http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/CrossCompileFaq Cheers, Mark
