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.
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!
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.Congratulations!
Congratulations Gary! This is cool work.
ah! this is really interesting :)
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
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…