On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Beso <[email protected]> wrote: > well, for me icedtea works as long as you remove any gcj from the system and > just compile gcc with gcj use flag, and this will take a very huge > amount of time, > let's say that you could go to town (about 15km of distance) for > christmass shopping > and then get back and you'll still have it working, especially if > you're on multilib. > you'll then need the original sun jdk to compile icedtea6 from java > overlay. if you > follow this and build icedtea6 with sunjdk then it will quite build > and work until > the new java update will be released. just remember that icedtea6 takes a huge > amount of time to build too and i don't really know if it really > worths rebuilding it.
http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/betelgeuse/2008/12/17/binary_packages_for_icedtea6 This just popped up on my RSS reader. The main gist is there is now a icedtea6-bin package in java-overlay. I haven't tested it yet but i now have icedtea6-bin installed. I plan to mess around with it later when I get home and see what I can break. I've played with icedtea in the past and managed to get it to work after a long time fiddling with it. Hopefully a binary file will be an easier solution then rebuilding gcc and such things. -- aim: cyst23 email: [email protected] Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list -- Oblique Strategy #11
