Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: icedtea6 and seamonkey

[Beso]

2008/12/17 anorexicsumo <anorexicsumo@×××××.com>:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> 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.

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dott. ing. beso