JDK 1.3 loop?

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:31:33AM +0200, Martin Jessa wrote:
> Got this annoying error trying to compile jdk-1.3
> Seems like a new installation of jdk-1.3 needs an existing installation of java for bootstrapping, which sounds absurd.

Yeah!  Imagine if gcc needed another C compiler to bootstrap itself!
Oh wait...

> I also have linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.09 Sun Java Development Kit 1.3 for Linux installed.

make JDK13DIR=/usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.3.1

> Please CC: to me or ports@ as I dont subscribe to java at .
> 
> ===>   Returning to build of jdk-1.3.1p8_2
> ===>   jdk-1.3.1p8_2 depends on executable: gmake - found
> ===>   jdk-1.3.1p8_2 depends on shared library: glib12.3 - found
> ===>   jdk-1.3.1p8_2 depends on shared library: gtk12.2 - found
> ===>   jdk-1.3.1p8_2 depends on shared library: nspr4.1 - found
> ===>  Configuring for jdk-1.3.1p8_2
> ===>  Building for jdk-1.3.1p8_2
> # Start of jdk build
> i386 Build started:   1.3.1-p8-root-031009-10:33
> ERROR: Your BOOTDIR environment variable does not point
>        to a valid Java 2 SDK for bootstrapping this build.
>        A Java 2 SDK 1.3.1 build must be bootstrapped against any 
>        1.3 build. Please update your ALT_BOOTDIR setting, or 
>        just unset it, and start your build again.

The Java version you're trying to bootstrap with doesn't run.  Fix this
and restart the build.

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