building a JDK bootstrap on Linux

[Carlos Lucasius -- ACE Java Licensee Engineering]

Steve:

Building a JDK on Linux involves bootstrapping against an
older JDK on Linux.  What if I want to build that bootstrap
itself from scratch (C/C++ code only)?  Any ideas/pointers?

Thanks,

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