----- Original Message ----- > On 23 February 2012 19:31, David Bosschaert > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 23 February 2012 16:26, Andrew Haley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 02/23/2012 04:23 PM, David Bosschaert wrote: > >>> Could it be related to this message? > >>> Linking vm... > >>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ > >>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > >>> which is a bit odd given that I have the latest libstdc++ > >>> installed... > >> > >> Yes, that's it. The problem is probably that it's trying to link > >> statically with libstdc++ and you have no static version of that > >> library. > >> > >> Andrew. > >> > > > > Turns out that I had to install the static version separately, the > > following did the trick: > > yum install libstdc++-static > > > > Thanks Andrew for this! > > > > David > > I've documented all the steps to build OpenJDK 8 on Fedora 16 here: > http://coderthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/02/building-project-penrose-or-openjdk-8.html > > Feel free to include this in the build page > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html > whenever that gets brought to life. >
Passing STATIC_CXX="false" will also work and is preferable. This is what we do in IcedTea. > Cheers, > > David > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
