On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 06:00:21PM +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 10/08/2015 19:42, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > (Note: Resending this after fixing DKIM signing issues, I apologize in > > advance > > to those who get the email twice) > > > > I was reading over > > <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/openjdk.html>, and it > > seemed a bit overly complex. I've been building OpenJDK for a while, and I > > was able to make it so you can use the normal checkout method for getting > > the > > source with a simple patch. I.e.,: > > > > hg clone -r jdk8u51-b16 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u60/ > > cd jdk8u60 > > chmod a+rx get_source.sh > > patch -p1 < fix-source.patch > > ./get_source.sh -r jdk8u51-b16 > > > > Then you can just run ./configure <options> etc > > > > > > > > Figured this may be useful to others. It essentially passes the -r <tag> > > option to the initial source clone of the other required repositories. > > > > Now there's no need to download all the tarballs separately, etc. > > > > --Quanah > > > > It looks like those instructions require mercurial to be available. The BLFS > policy is such that the user be able to build without being connected to > internet after the tarballs have been downloaded, which means that no required > instruction in the book use mercurial (or git, or subversion...) > Regards, > Pierre
I haven't seen either of the original posts, but to Pierre : what about libreoffice ? ĸen -- This one goes up to eleven: but only on a clear day, with the wind in the right direction. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
