JVM panic when build openjdk7 on private FreeBSD 8.2

Thu May 30 23:08:06 UTC 2013

Hi--

On May 29, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Xu Zhe <xzpeter at gmail.com> wrote:
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> BTW, I would appreciate if anyone can tell me why build java need java support?

You need a Java compiler to build the Java standard platform libraries (ie, java.*, javax.*, etc) needed by the JRE, but you can cross-compile those somewhere else (and/or run a precompiled Linux JRE via FreeBSD's Linux emulation) if needed to bootstrap a native Java toolchain from scratch.

Regards,
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-Chuck