Hi Mark,
Mark Wielaard wrote:
I agree, but I have understood that this work has been done in IcedTea
already. Is there any estimate when these two codebases may converge?
Does IcedTea configure+make model work on platforms other than
linux? OpenJDK has to be built at least on Solaris and Windows.
It's my understanding that Windows is the greatest pain in
terms of build environment.
It should work on (open)solaris, but I haven't tried myself. I doubt
I doubt that it would work out of the box since on solaris we use
SunStudio compilers and not gcc so that would need to be
addressed by the configure script. I doubt that we'll be switching
to gcc for solaris compilation any time soon.
anybody ever tried it on windows. In theory with cygwin you should be
able to get enough of the gnu toolchain to get it working. But icedtea
Theories seldom work well when applied to Windows, unfortunately,
as Kelly would attest. But I guess we won't know until we try.
autotools support was also added to make bootstrapping through other
libre java implementations like gcj possible. The cygwin gcj port
however is, as far as I know, still a version behind the version we
really need (including 1.5 language support). That said, there is a
--with-openjdk configure flag that should in theory work as soon as you
have an pre-existing openjdk build already. But we would indeed need
testers for that platform. For some reason it isn't a very popular
development platform for Free Software hackers.
How the Free Software hackers would ensure that their changes
to the shared code in the openjdk don't break Windows if they
never build or test there? Unfortunately that could easily
happen (and did in the past).
Thanks,
Dmitri
