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On 2017.11.18 04:16, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 02:40:14 +0000 |
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> Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote: |
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> > William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> > > > If you have any suggestions as to what I should look at to |
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> better |
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> > > > understand the OpenJDK build system I would very much appreciate |
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> > > > them. |
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> > .. |
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> > > Build OpenJDK stand alone. Get familiar with that. |
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> > |
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> > It used to be that one could not build OpenJDK without already |
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> having |
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> > a working JDK. Has that changed with OpenJDK 9 (IIRC it was planned |
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> > for OpenJDK 7 :) or not yet, and that is a reason for having icedtea |
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> > in the mix? |
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> Yes you are correct, nothing has changed there to my knowledge. |
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[snip] |
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> -- |
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> William L. Thomson Jr. |
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You can start with gcc-5.4 with the gcj use flag. |
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That will bootstrap icedtea:7 |
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icedtea:7 will bootstrap icedtea:8 |
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Tested on arm64. |
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With icedtea:7 going and gcc-5.4 not having a very long future, |
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building icedtea for a new arch will be painful. |
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Regards, |
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Roy Bamford |
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