[gentoo-amd64] Re: icedtea java on amd64?

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Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>>> After hearing a little bit about icedtea I thought I might give it a
>>>>> try. I removed the Sun java stuff and tried to emerge but am not sure
>>>>> how to handle the error message.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, which of the use flags make sense for a desktop machine? Is
>>>>> nsplugin supported for amd64? javascript?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Mark
> <SNIP>
>
> Another possible clue. Why is emerge saying it wants to pull in icedtea6-bin?


I'm not certain that this is the *easiest* method, but I've found
installing dev-java/gcj-jdk temporarily before building icedtea6 (note
that sys-devel/gcc must have USE=gcj for gcj-jdk to build) works well,
as gcj-jdk meets the requirement for virtual/gnu-classpath-jdk, which
means that icedtea6 will not depend on itself.

Using gcj-jdk, I managed to build icedtea6 without ever having had
sun-jdk installed on this system.  This has worked both on my amd64
system, as well as my x86 system.

You mentioned the "nsplugin" USE flag - this *does* work on amd64, and
will install a 64-bit plugin for Netscape / Firefox / Seamonkey /
Epiphany / etc.

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