[MacPorts] #20662: openjdk6_bootstrap contains only i386 binaries

[Frank J. R. Hanstick]

Hello,
	Forgive my ignorance; but, could you explain to me icetea fits into  
building openbootstrap?

On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Aug 13, 2009, at 14:35 , Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
>> 	Are there instructions somewhere on how to do this?
>>
>> On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 13, 2009, at 14:04 , Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
>>>> 	Can anyone tell me if any other programs ported by MacPorts  
>>>> that is i386 only as implied in the reason for closing this ticket?
>>>
>>>
>>> wine / wine-devel / wine-crossover-games are intrinsically x86  
>>> only, for one obvious example.  openjdk is not intrinsically x86- 
>>> only, as I see Solaris SPARC support, but if there's no bootstrap  
>>> binaries for PPC then it's unlikely to be supported by MacPorts  
>>> unless someone does the work to bootstrap it.
>>>
>>> It looks to me like any JDK 1.6 will work for bootstrapping,  
>>> although I'd be surprised if the port made any attempt to support  
>>> anything other than a fixed bootstrap, so someone who cared could  
>>> build openjdk6 PPC binaries using Sun JDK 1.6 and package them up  
>>> as the PPC openjdk6_bootstrap.
>
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README- 
> builds.html is for openjdk7 but is probably close enough for  
> openjdk6 --- the Sun JDK 1.6 link is dead, but you want to use the  
> one Apple installed anyway (this may require Leopard).
>
> -- 
> brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell]  
> allbery at kf8nh.com
> system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  
> allbery at ece.cmu.edu
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university     
> KF8NH
>
>
>

Frank J. R. Hanstick
trog24 at comcast.net




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