On 09:30 Wed 17 Nov , Gary Benson wrote: > Hi Ramakanth, > > It looks like you're using IcedTea, so I'm copying in distro-pkg-dev > which is the mailing list most IcedTea stuff is discussed on. > > It also looks like you're using Fedora 8, which is very old. I'm not > saying you won't be able to do a build, but you'll likely run into > problems that upgrading would solve. So unless there you have a very > compelling reason to stick on Fedora 8 I would suggest upgrading to > the latest as your first step. > > In answer to your question, ecj is the Java compiler from Eclipse, > and it's the Java compiler used by jdk-gcj-compat. You do need an > existing JDK to build OpenJDK, and jdk-gcj-compat is probably the > only free one available for Fedora 8. > > Cheers, > Gary > > Ramakanth Varala wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Iam trying to build openjdk for my fedora plat form . > > i like to build openjdk without ecj ( i guess this is eclipse related > > and eclipse IDE is not needed ) > >
ecj is a java compiler and you need a Java compiler to build IcedTea. It does come from the Eclipse IDE but you don't need any of the IDE installed to use it. It's a command-line tool. On Fedora 8, I believe you should have the option of either installing java-1.5.0-gcj (recommended) or java-1.7.0-icedtea. Using the latter will require building with the --with-openjdk flag. The simplest option, however, is probably just to upgrade to a newer version of Fedora and perform 'yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk'. > > Currently iam getting the error as below . > > > > checking for distribution package version... none > > checking build identification... Built on Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) > > (Wed Nov 17 12:03:35 IST 2010) > > checking for a GCJ JDK home directory... > > configure: error: "A GCJ JDK home directory could not be found." > > > > > > can any body help me in this. > > > > regards > > -- > http://gbenson.net/ -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint = F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
