On 09:59 Wed 15 Jun , Andrew Haley wrote: > On 14/06/11 22:22, Sebastian Sickelmann wrote: > > > > i had done a contribution to openjdk7 and remembered it was very > > hard to setup all the build thinks. Now a want to make some new > > contributions and i struggle again with the build setup. How about a > > prebuild Oracle VM appliance for openjdk development (at least for > > the linux-setup). I will get it working without such a appliance but > > i think it can be a solution to lower the "entry-hurdle" in openjdk > > contribution. > > Perhaps so. I used to find OpenJDK hard to build, but now only the > pesky bundles that you have to download present any problems. I'll be > interested to find out what other problems a prebuilt VM needs to > solve. > > Andrew.
Which 'pesky bundles' are you referring to? I'm not aware of any being required for OpenJDK at present. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37
