2008/12/17 anorexicsumo <[email protected]>: > 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. > well, if you've ever got icedtea installed you should also have compiled gcc with gcj. if you haven't done it then i think you've had a big pain in the a** having it to work.
-- dott. ing. beso
