On 2017.11.18 04:16, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 02:40:14 +0000 > Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote: > > > William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > > > If you have any suggestions as to what I should look at to > better > > > > understand the OpenJDK build system I would very much appreciate > > > > them. > > .. > > > Build OpenJDK stand alone. Get familiar with that. > > > > It used to be that one could not build OpenJDK without already > having > > a working JDK. Has that changed with OpenJDK 9 (IIRC it was planned > > for OpenJDK 7 :) or not yet, and that is a reason for having icedtea > > in the mix? > > Yes you are correct, nothing has changed there to my knowledge. > [snip]
> > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > You can start with gcc-5.4 with the gcj use flag. That will bootstrap icedtea:7 icedtea:7 will bootstrap icedtea:8 Tested on arm64. With icedtea:7 going and gcc-5.4 not having a very long future, building icedtea for a new arch will be painful. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods
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