lang/sun-jdk15 on amd64

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear Milos,

>> No idea, sorry. I always use the native build, because if I run into
>> problems, they can be fixed by the Java porting team. The linux  
>> package
>> is not open to such fixes.
>
> How do you manage to build native jdk? It depends on linux emulated  
> jdk
> package (which core dumps for me).


Hum. You ran into the bootstrap problem. Blech, I remember that one  
from way back when I hacked at the DEC Alpha port a little.  
Technically, building the JDK depends on any working JVM, not the  
linux one per se.

There are two paths for you to take; find a working JVM for your box  
and edit the port dependency so that it uses that JVM, or do the  
bootstrap on another machine.

I'm not sure what version of the JDK you need to bootstrap the JVM  
build.

First path speaks for itself, I think. Second path is more likely to  
work, but very fiddly. First run the build until it cores. Then see  
the last command that the build tried to run. That command is most  
likely "${your-bootstrap-java-home}/bin/javac ..." What you can do is  
copy the extracted and half-built JDK sources onto (say) a Linux/amd64  
system, then issue the failed command manually, then drag the half- 
built tree back to the target machine and continue the build.

You can optimize this procedure if you study the command and its  
dependent files. I have done it in the past and it's not really as  
hard as it sounds.

This is all from memory, so please check with Greg Lewis and the java  
porting team on how to proceed. They know a lot more tricks than I do.
--
Kees Jan

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