As of about an hour ago it should be possible to build icedtea6 on any Linux system with no more effort than ./configure and make.
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As of about an hour ago it should be possible to build icedtea6 on any Linux system with no more effort than ./configure and make.
Egon Willighagen | 26-Mar-08 at 1:23 pm | Permalink
Really happy to hear that! I’m using Ubuntu myself which has had debs for some time now, but using the common install standard is crucial for a project success. Many thanx for the enormous efforts that are put into IcedTea!
gbenson | 26-Mar-08 at 1:29 pm | Permalink
Oh, it’s not that it didn’t use
./configureandmakebefore, so much as that it would fail unless you were on x86, amd64, ppc or ppc64. And on the ppcs only because it was heavily patched for it.Anthony Green | 26-Mar-08 at 1:34 pm | Permalink
Congratulations!
Tom Tromey | 26-Mar-08 at 1:44 pm | Permalink
Congratulations Gary! This is cool work.
sid77 | 26-Mar-08 at 2:10 pm | Permalink
ah! this is really interesting :)
Susan Ye | 27-Mar-08 at 1:42 pm | Permalink
hi gary,
how about try it out on Linux running on IBM System z? IBM offers free accounts on this system:
LCDS System
z900 2064 Model 116 (16 way processor)
Memory 32GB
DASD
Shark 2105-F20 (2.1 terabytes)
Network
The network configuration is a direct Internet connection with open access to the Linux guest machines from the WWW
gbenson | 27-Mar-08 at 3:27 pm | Permalink
I was going to try an s390x build (I have an account on one of our z900s) but getting all the dependencies on is a pain. Really it needs to be Fedora 7 or higher, but the latest installable image I have is RHEL5 which is based on Fedora 6 so I’m going to wait until the Fedora guys have time to do it in the build system and only worry about setting my own machine up if I absolutely need to. A guy from SuSE already built it on zSeries so it’s not like I’d be doing anything new…