Suggestions on where to place updates: For step 2, we can add a note to: http://harmony.apache.org/quickhelp_contributors.html
For step 3, this is some Wiki troubleshooting, but not sure which one ;( Cheers, Nadya >-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Hindess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:36 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [build][doc] building on Debian > > >On 17 January 2007 at 21:07, "Morozova, Nadezhda" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Alexei, >> Great to hear about another achievement of our team! >> Do you think the difficulties you report are permanent or relatively >> temporary? If this is persistent, we can amend the 'Getting Started' >> file; otherwise, I suggest that you add this info to our Wiki >> troubleshooting pages. What do you say? > >2) sounds permanent - perhaps Alexei Fedotov can provide more details > >3) is relatively temporary as I think we've agreed to use versioned >libraries or at least try to load them first. > >-Mark. > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Alexei Zakharov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:03 PM >> >To: [email protected] >> >Subject: [build][doc] building on Debian >> > >> >Hi all, >> > >> >I gratefully like to announce that I was successful in building and >> >running Harmony on newly installed Debian stable Linux system. As far >> >as I remember nobody has tried to build on Debian before (I may be >> >wrong of course). >> > >> >However there were some tricks I'd like to share. >> >1. I was able to build both classlib and DRLVM without any problems >> >with our "getting started for contributors" page and default Debian >> >package set. >> >2. However, DRLVM completely rejected to run after step 1. Even >> >HelloWorld crashed. The problem was that the kernel I was using wasn't >> >fresh enough - big thanks to Alexei Fedotov for pointing this out. So >> >I've switched from version 2.4.27 to 2.6.8 and this brings DRLVM back >> >to life. >> >3. After step 2 everything was almost fine. Except for the graphics. >> >Almost all Swing & AWT tests fail because it fails to load >> >org.apache.harmony.awt.wtk.linux.LinuxWindowFactory. I've spent some >> >time investigating this. The correct sequence of actions was >> >su >> >cd /usr/X11R6/lib >> >ln -sf libXmu.so.6 libXmu.so >> >ln -sf libXtst.so.6 libXtst.so >> >ldconfig >> >exit >> > >> >Now everything is fine. I believe that the information from steps (2) >> >and (3) may help others to setup Harmony quickly. Probably it is not a >> >bad idea to put it somewhere on our site. >> > >> >Thanks, >> >-- >> >Alexei Zakharov, >> >Intel ESSD >> >
