make sanity RFE

2008-08-27 Thread Jonathan Gibbons
For the first time, I've been trying a full complete build of OpenJDK (full open+closed forest.) I'm building on Ubuntu, and the build has now failed a second time because of a missing command -- or more specifically, a command which is not installed by default. The first command was msgfmt, the

Re: make sanity RFE

2008-08-27 Thread Martin Buchholz
If you're running on Ubuntu, the makefiles could check for the installed-ness of various build-time dependencies. The Ubuntu packagers (i.e. doko) must already have such a list. Martin On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan Gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the first time, I've been try

Re: make sanity RFE

2008-08-27 Thread Dalibor Topic
Jonathan Gibbons wrote: For the first time, I've been trying a full complete build of OpenJDK (full open+closed forest.) I'm building on Ubuntu, and the build has now failed a second time because of a missing command -- or more specifically, a command which is not installed by default. The firs

Re: make sanity RFE

2008-08-27 Thread Jonathan Gibbons
Neat! -- Jon Dalibor Topic wrote: Jonathan Gibbons wrote: For the first time, I've been trying a full complete build of OpenJDK (full open+closed forest.) I'm building on Ubuntu, and the build has now failed a second time because of a missing command -- or more specifically, a command which i

Re: make sanity RFE

2008-08-27 Thread Martin Buchholz
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sudo apt-get build-dep openjdk-6 Wow! __That__'s the command I've been looking for! Martin

Re: make sanity RFE

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Reinhold
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:19:24 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > sudo apt-get build-dep openjdk-6 > > should get you the necessary build dependencies installed. Wow. That is just too slick for words. - Mark

Re: make sanity RFE

2008-08-28 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:49 -0700, Martin Buchholz wrote: > If you're running on Ubuntu, the makefiles could check for the > installed-ness of various build-time dependencies. > The Ubuntu packagers (i.e. doko) must already have such a list. IcedTea has a list and configure tries to find the appro