On 16:15 Wed 15 Jun , Andrew Haley wrote: > On 06/15/2011 04:11 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > On 09:59 Wed 15 Jun , Andrew Haley wrote: > >> On 14/06/11 22:22, Sebastian Sickelmann wrote: > >>> > >>> i had done a contribution to openjdk7 and remembered it was very > >>> hard to setup all the build thinks. Now a want to make some new > >>> contributions and i struggle again with the build setup. How about a > >>> prebuild Oracle VM appliance for openjdk development (at least for > >>> the linux-setup). I will get it working without such a appliance but > >>> i think it can be a solution to lower the "entry-hurdle" in openjdk > >>> contribution. > >> > >> Perhaps so. I used to find OpenJDK hard to build, but now only the > >> pesky bundles that you have to download present any problems. I'll be > >> interested to find out what other problems a prebuilt VM needs to > >> solve. > > > > Which 'pesky bundles' are you referring to? I'm not aware of any being > > required for OpenJDK at present. > > Sure, but they were. I don't know what Sebastian is trying to solve, > since OpenJDK builds cleanly out of the box on the systems I use. >
Same here. They haven't been any bundles for a couple of years. The build could be a lot simpler though, and I believe Kelly is working on that. > Andrew. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37
