Re: Re: A More FHS-Compliant JDK Install

2011-01-02 Thread David Herron
veral Linux distro projects, I understand the value of weaving Java into the system so that it feels as seamless as e.g. Python does. + David Herron http://davidherron.com On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Lussier, Denis wrote: > The differentiation you describe below for /opt and /usr/local

Re: Reducing overall amount of OpenJDK source code

2010-05-24 Thread David Herron
p ... hence the direction you just laid out won't be certifiable. But .. pragmatism says that the existence and success of Android shows that the world is willing to adopt a near-Java platform that doesn't meet the compatibility requirements. - David Herron http://davidherron.com PS I'm surprised you didn't mention CORBA as one of the things to ditch...

Re: Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

2008-12-19 Thread David Herron @ Sun
me similarity of the two to assure quality of OpenJDK7. - David Herron

Re: pushlog hook for hg

2008-11-05 Thread David Herron @ Sun
review process? - David Herron

Re: Can somebody sanity-check me here?

2008-07-16 Thread David Herron
Ted, what you actually need is the forest rooted at jdk7/jdk7 The forest will pull the rest. - David Ted Neward wrote: So, just to be clear, I only need jdk7/jdk7, jdk7/corba, jdk7/jdk7/hotspot, jdk7/jdk7/jaxp, jdk7/jdk7/jaxws, jdk7/jdk7/jdk, and jdk7/jdk7/langtools? (Those are what I'm curr

Re: building OpenJDK on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-06-25 Thread David Herron
ibx11-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxau-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-xlib0-dev libxdmcp-dev libxext-dev The ones with xcb in their name probably do not exist on 7.10 - David Herron

Re: javax.script rhino (javascript) support added

2008-06-24 Thread David Herron
e think of hair plugs and Duke with hair doesn't make sense. So of course the plugs have to go. - David Herron

Re: Ability to override compiler from environment

2008-06-23 Thread David Herron
- Jon David Herron wrote: I was thinking about this issue of compiling with different gcc's and it seems the normal way to install multiple gcc's is to use suffixes for the version like so:- gcc-4.1 == gcc v4.1.x gcc-3.4 == gcc v3.4.x gcc == gcc v4.2.x I groped around the OpenJD

Ability to override compiler from environment

2008-06-23 Thread David Herron
s could be overridden with a small change in the makefile CC?=gcc CPP?=g++ And then setting CC or CPP in the environment would make it so the variable is already set and these lines in the makefile would have no effect. - David Herron

Re: javax.script rhino (javascript) support added

2008-06-23 Thread David Herron
Mark Wielaard wrote: Hi, This patch adds javax.script javascript support through rhino. CCed build-dev since it is mainly build stuff and there doesn't seem to be another list for scripting stuff (not that I am advocating yet another list!) The idea is pretty simple, if configure can detect rhi

Re: Recommended GCC version?

2008-06-19 Thread David Herron
erous it is for the distros to provide this service. -- David Herron

Relying on /bin/sh compatibility ? ... Re: OpenJDK Build error on Ubuntu 8.04

2008-06-03 Thread David Herron
How can we be sure any /bin/sh interpreter is actually compatible with /bin/sh ?? - David Herron

Re: OpenJDK Build error on Ubuntu 8.04

2008-06-02 Thread David Herron
ata as the suggested workaround. It'll take 24+ hours for the bug update to show publicly. - David Herron

Re: OpenJDK Build error on Ubuntu 8.04

2008-06-02 Thread David Herron
:~# ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-04-23 08:49 /bin/sh -> dash I suppose one fix would be to change that symbolic link to point to 'bash' instead. Another workaround is to add a 'SHELL=/bin/bash' to one or more makefile. - David Herron

Re: Runing findbugs

2008-05-13 Thread David Herron
findbugs build target and having findbugs in your environment would be a requirement for that target but otherwise not required. - David Herron Jonathan Gibbons wrote: Kelly, I think that running findbugs on different segments of JDK and publishing histograms of the results on the OpenJDK

Re: Build problems on Ubuntu 8.04

2008-04-21 Thread David Herron
se it is system-specific (requires that bash be installed). I haven't checked with the responsible engineer recently to see what his status is. - David Herron Roman Kennke wrote: Hi there, I've just setup a box with the soon-to-be-released Ubuntu 8.04, and see a number of problems:

Re: mail.openjdk.java.net: no search tool on the mailing archive.

2008-04-01 Thread David Herron
Go to your favorite search engine site site:mail.openjdk.java.net search string ?? - David Francis ANDRE wrote: Hi I would like to look for additional informations on building OpenJDK in all archive mails but AFAIK, there is no search tool on the archive page. Do you plan to add such t

Re: Suggestion

2008-03-30 Thread David Herron
http://openjdk.java.net/guide/ Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Hi It took me 6 hours of Googling and searching mailing list archives and various blogs to find how to download the OpenJDK7 source code. Could you please document somewhere on the openjdk.java.net website how to get the source, ie. that

Re: What am I doing wrong here?

2008-03-19 Thread David Herron
s blog has the right picture. I think that picture belongs in the developers guide (http://openjdk.java.net/guide/repositories.html) - David Herron

JDK_IMPORT_PATH

2008-03-05 Thread David Herron
I just fclone'd the JDK7 source tree and am running through the build process. I'm running into a build failure if ALT_JDK_IMPORT_PATH is not set. This variable is not discussed in README-builds.html but is mentioned in jdk/make/README. The build failure is the same as here: http://www.mail