Comments on: Help Wanted https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2008/11/06/help-wanted/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:26:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Samh https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2008/11/06/help-wanted/comment-page-1/#comment-28467 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:26:12 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=3359#comment-28467 Landon Fuller posted some instructions for building OpenJDK on FreeBSD and Mac OSX a while back[1]. The big hurdle is bootstrapping the build process with another JDK, the FreeBSD build uses the java/diablo-jdk16 port. Jikes could possibly be used for compiling, but I think it then requires actually running the code, GCJ is generally not a good substitute. It could possibly be bootstrapped in some emulation mode, which is if I remember correctly how the OpenBSD port used to work. It also requires Mecurial, which I’ve had problems installing on DragonFly, but I’m assuming others have not. With a few tweaks this might work, however I’m not very familiar with DragonFly yet, so I might need a few pointers as to the right way to go about things.

[1]http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/bsd-port-dev/2008-August/000006.html

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