From owner-freebsd-java Mon Apr 3 15:17:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from securitas.net (extern.securitas.net [212.66.1.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 456AC37B6F5 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grossman@securitas.net) Received: from blue.securitas.net (blue.securitas.net [212.66.0.24]) by securitas.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA12496; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 00:15:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from grossman@localhost) by blue.securitas.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA25123; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 00:16:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 00:16:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200004032216.AAA25123@blue.securitas.net> From: Rolf Grossmann MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: Subject: Bootstrapping with JDK 1.1.8 In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452201313A23@l04.research.kpn.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452201313A23@l04.research.kpn.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Kees Jan, on your webpage you write: > Currently, the Linux JDK is used to bootstrap the build > process. The native FreeBSD port of JDK 1.1.8 should be > sufficient to bootstrap the build process. Could someone > please test this? I tried and I'm sorry that I have to report: No, it won't work. Sun explicitly checks for a JDK 1.2 implementation in their build/share/tools/sanityck script and (unfortunatly) there is a good reason they do so. The calling parameters for (at least) javac have changed quite a bit since 1.1, including what looks to me like some support especially for bootstrapping (options -bootclasspath and sourcepath). Removing those results in a lot of "Class not found" errors, which is when I gave up. It should still be possible to bootstrap using 1.1, but that will most likely require reworking the whole process (probably making it incompatible with 1.2 bootstrapping). As we have the Linux JDK, I don't think it would be worthwhile to persue this issue. Now if we could only get a licence to distribute binary releases ... :/ Bye, Rolf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message