>> Hi! >> >> I'm having some trouble compiling 1.5 jdk with the aug. 16 snapshots. It >> complains about missing ZoneInfoMappings. Details below. >> >> Any advice on how to proceed? > >Actually the missing ZoneInfoMappings is ok, but the NPE >is not. It seems like its choking on your timezone setting. >How is your timezone setup (i.e. /etc/localtime)? Is it a >symlink or a copy of the timezone file and which one is it >set to?
# ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 25 Aug 1 18:55 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT+0 Manully copying the ZoneInfoMappings from another (Windows) box allowed me to build it. I just tried the firefox plugin and it seems to work fine.
