IcedTea For Linux

IcedTea software provides a harness to build the source code from http://openjdk.java.net using Free Software build tools and provides replacements for the binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project.

We have temporarily made the decision to remove the ECJ support. The

–with-icedtea option has been made default.

Now, IcedTea bootstraps against a system installed IcedTea or a previously built version of IcedTea.

To get started on a Fedora 7 GNU/Linux system with yum:

$ sudo yum –enablerepo=development install java-1.7.0-icedtea mercurial cups-devel lesstif-devel libXp-devel libXtst-devel libXi-devel xalan-j2 xerces-j2 libXt-devel libgcj freetype-devel gcc gcc-c++ wget java-1.5.0-gcj-devel alsa-lib-devel firefox-devel glib2-devel gtk2-devel ant libXinerama-devel

Then:

$ hg clone http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea $ cd icedtea

Full build instructions are in INSTALL, but this works:

$ ./configure $ make

For all other distributions, it is mandatory that you have another version of IcedTea built (b19 or less). The tarballs for all the releases are available here: http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source.

$ ./configure –with-icedtea-home=/path/to/icedtea/openjdk/control/build/linux-{arch}/j2sdk-image/

$ make

When this completes you’ll have a usable IcedTea in openjdk/control/build/linux-i586 or openjdk/control/build/linux-amd64.