Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:
> pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> writes:
>
>> To support the JVM we'll need to add the openjdk.
>>
>> Having a look at it I think it is doable. Only problem is that the
>> java compiler needs to be bootstrapped with itself.
>>
>> In Nix they create a binary blob to bootstrap:
>>
>> let
>> # !!! These should be on nixos.org
>> src = if glibc.system == "x86_64-linux" then
>> fetchurl {
>> url =
>> http://tarballs.nixos.org/openjdk-bootstrap-x86_64-linux-2012-08-2
>> 4.tar.xz;
>> sha256 = "0gla9dxrfq2w1hvgsnn8jg8a60k27im6z43a6iidi0qmwa0wah32";
>> }
>> else if glibc.system == "i686-linux" then
>> fetchurl {
>> url =
>> http://tarballs.nixos.org/openjdk-bootstrap-i686-linux-2012-08-24.
>> tar.xz;
>> sha256 = "184wq212bycwbbq4ix8cc6jwjxkrqw9b01zb86q95kqpa8zy5206";
>> }
>> else throw "No bootstrap for system";
>> in
>>
>> How do we go about this one?
>
>
> We already have a JDK provided by the “jdk” output of the “icedtea”
> packages. “IcedTea” is the name of the project that provides a heavily
> patched framework allowing us to build the (patched) OpenJDK sources
> with free software only. Building the vanilla OpenJDK appparently isn’t
> that easy – and not really necessary since we have the IcedTea-ified
> version.
>
> We are bootstrapping with GCJ.
And kudos to you Ricardo for doing the right thing. It’s much more
confidence-inspiring than the above snippet. :-)
Ludo’.
