It is my understanding that openjdk7 now supports hotspot for ppc(please correct me if I am wrong). We(Transmode) would like to use icedtea for ppc but building icedtea ourself for ppc proves difficult. Please consider adding ~ppc keyword to icedtea-bin Reproducible: Always
What are the problems building icedtea from sources? do you have a compile failure?
1) You need a working JDK to build a new one. Gjc seems fuction halfways but wont build ant-core which is also needed to build icedtea. 2) The build deps for icedtea are massive(insane IMHO). You X11Libs, rhino etc. This is alot for our embedded target to handle. I have no idea where this list will end, I haven't made my way through configure yet.
I note that current dev-java/icedtea forces cacao or zero. This should not be needed anymore, please try to build icedtea-bin without these.
With minimal USE flags and building on my target: build dev-java/gcj-jdk and gcc with gcj USE flag quickpkg dev-java/ant-core on amd64 host and install it on ppc build dev-java/icedtea:6 java-config -S dev-java/icedtea:6 build dev-java/icedtea:7 java-config -S dev-java/icedtea:7 I managed to get a icedtea:7 on my ppc target. Very painful, took many hours to complete so pretty please, can we get a dev-java/icedtea-bin for ppc(andd ppc64)? Next step will be hotspot for ppc but that needs a new icedtea:7 release
ping? I should point out that ppc in openjdk means ppc64, it had me confused for a while
Caster prepared the icedtea-bin builds previously. He's currently devaway and half way out the Java team door as it is. Someone else should probably pick this up. With my battle with Maven about to start, I'm trying not to take on too much else. Having adequate PPC hardware to build it on is also an issue. Then again, using QEMU probably wouldn't be much slower.
I have now added icedtea-bin builds for ppc but not ppc64. I was more enthusiastic about ppc64 but the icedtea-7 build currently segfaults on me. I have filed a bug report upstream.
There is now an icedtea-bin for ppc64 though it is still CACAO-based for now. I'll be looking into icedtea 3 shortly. Java on ppc has been dropped entirely. Closing now.
