On 06/15/2011 04:11 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > 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. > > Which 'pesky bundles' are you referring to? I'm not aware of any being > required for OpenJDK at present.
Sure, but they were. I don't know what Sebastian is trying to solve, since OpenJDK builds cleanly out of the box on the systems I use. Andrew.
