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Re: GNU Classpath 0.99 Released!

Nils — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:23:28 -0000

It's great...many fixes and improvemnts are incorporated, I have one question... Does classpath is fully comptiable with IPv6? I had try to connect IPv6 server using socket connection but i did not get succes, Somewhere inside the native call it execute connect insted of connect6.

Re: The Future of IcedTea

Mark — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:18:51 -0000

Maybe we should call it IcedTeaJDK? To show there is more IcedTea than just the JDK bits?

Re: The Future of IcedTea

Robert Klemme — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:25:20 -0000

I would love to see efforts merged. It would be good if all involved parties could sort out the process issues and work from a single code basis. I think that would be the best for the community.

Re: [SECURITY] IcedTea6 1.11.6 Released! [The FOSDEM Release]

Mark — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:35:35 -0000

You should have called it "The Fosdem edition"!
Thanks so much Andrew.

Re: The Future of IcedTea

Andii — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:58:39 -0000

Second attempt at replying on a more stable connection :) OpenJDK6 has a new lead and so will continue to see activity beyond what Oracle do: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/p... But the blog was focused more on 8. The setup with 6 & 7 is pretty much a done deal.

Re: The Future of IcedTea

Kenneth Jaeger — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:45:44 -0000

At the very least, IcedTea needs to continue to exist so OpenJDK 6 will have a place where patches can be made for a while after Oracle halts maintenance of Java 6 in a couple of weeks.

Re: [SECURITY] IcedTea 2.1.4, 2.2.4 & 2.3.4 Released!

Andii — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:17:30 -0000

You can specify the JDK using --with-jdk-home=<path> if configure doesn't find it. However, if your location is a standard one, please let us know and we'll add it to the list configure searches. I'm on x86_64, but the VM is still accessible via /usr/lib/jvm. In fact, /usr/lib64/jvm doesn't exist, at least on RHEL.

To help more with your current failure, I'd need to see your config.log. I suggest posting to our mailing list: distro-pkg-dev@openjdk.java.net with that file and we can discuss it further there.</path>

Re: [SECURITY] IcedTea 2.1.4, 2.2.4 & 2.3.4 Released!

Tomas — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:42:48 -0000

When I run ./configure I am getting this error:

checking for an ecj JAR file... /usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar
checking for xsltproc... /usr/bin/xsltproc
checking if the VM and compiler work together... configure: error: Compiler failed to compile Java code

I am running a 64 bit java and I have to link /usr/lib/jvm to /usr/lib64/jvm in order to get this far. can this be the cause of this configure error (I'm getting the same error on various versions of IcedTea).

Re: [SECURITY] IcedTea 2.1.4, 2.2.4 & 2.3.4 Released!

Andii — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:38:36 -0000

Fixed, but those are only example options anyway. The full list is available via ./configure --help.

Re: [SECURITY] IcedTea 2.1.4, 2.2.4 & 2.3.4 Released!

jamvaru — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:09:42 -0000

your web page cuts the text off on the right side

Re: [SECURITY] IcedTea 1.10.10, 1.11.5, 2.1.3, 2.2.3 & 2.3.3 Released!

Andii — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:51:11 -0000

They aren't requirements. They are just some possible options. ./configure --help will give you a full list.

Re: [SECURITY] IcedTea 1.10.10, 1.11.5, 2.1.3, 2.2.3 & 2.3.3 Released!

LaurenReese — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:11:47 -0000

../icedtea6-${ver}/configure [--enable-zero --enable-pulse-java --enable-systemtap ...]

Re: [SECURITY] IcedTea 1.10.10, 1.11.5, 2.1.3, 2.2.3 & 2.3.3 Released!

jack — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:55:23 -0000

on my laptop (I have the latest version of ubuntu) it does not show the end of the third line of the full build requirements on the webpage. what is it

Re: GNU Classpath 0.99 Released!

Andïï — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:23:07 -0000

Yeah, I'm having problems getting wml (the tool used to generate those pages) to work on a modern setup. I'll keep trying.

Re: [SECURITY] IcedTea6 1.10.8 & 1.11.3 Released!

Jason Porter — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:17:05 -0000

Is there a way to add IcedTea 1.6 for F17? I've found it very useful for testing projects I'm working on to be able to run with different versions of the JDK. Everything I've tried hasn't worked well, I'm afraid at this point it's down to building it from source.

Re: GNU Classpath 0.99 Released!

Janus Troelsen — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:07:15 -0000

It's still not up...

PS I don't mean to be a nuisance.

Re: GNU Classpath 0.99 Released!

Andïï — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:13:34 -0000

Yes. This is my bad. I need to remember how to update this and get the release notes up. Sorry for the delay.

Re: IcedTea 2.1 Released! (OpenJDK7 ~u3 release)

Кирилл Толкачёв — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:29:18 -0000

Error raised during build icedtea-2.1:
ln: accessing `libjvm.so.1': Too many levels of symbolic links
/usr/bin/chcon: failed to get security context of `libjvm.so': Too many levels of symbolic links
Build on PPC64. How to solve this problem?
PS: problem raise in makefile vm.make:
doubtful line:
rm -f libjvm.so.1; ln -s libjvm.so libjvm.so.1; \
[ -f libjvm.so ] || { ln -s libjvm.so libjvm.so; ln -s libjvm.so.1 libjvm.so.1; };

Re: GNU Classpath 0.99 Released!

Pietro Braione — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:25:13 -0000

It's great to see a new version, but... why the Classpath homepage has not been updated? There is no announcement (the last news is about 0.98) nor, which is even stranger, a link for downloading the current version. It still reports that the current version is 0.98!

Re: GNU Classpath 0.99 Released!

Andïï — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:48:29 -0000

GNU Classpath has remained in active development, so it is only right that there should be a new release to get this new features and bug fixes out to users. One advantage Classpath does have OpenJDK is that it's a true Free Software project run by the Free Software Foundation, whereas OpenJDK is subject to the whims of Oracle and still lacks basics such as a bug database and equal commit access. This is one of the primary reasons IcedTea continues to exist.

Re: GNU Classpath 0.99 Released!

Guest — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:21:08 -0000

Which advantage have GNU Classpath over OpenJDK/IcedTea?
I think since OpenJDK, GNU Classpath makes no longer sense. So I am surprised, that now a new GNU Classpath version is published again.

Re: IcedTea 2.1 Released! (OpenJDK7 ~u3 release)

Andrew Haley — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:03:02 -0000

> 1) is the IcedTea project going to make binaries
> for all the major linux distros and run the TCK
> against them? Or do you expect each to get the
> TCK and do a build and run agains distro t that,
> it would be much better for the open source java
> on Linux community if there was one place where
> you can get binaries that are certified mainly
> because then the open source Linux java user
> community would have one place to congregate.

I really very strongly disagree with this. The
distros themselves are far better at building and
packaging OpenJDK than the IcedTea project ever
could be. In addition, they control the updates
channel. I would never encourage anyone to use
such a downloaded binary if a proper distro
package were available.

Re: IcedTea 2.1 Released! (OpenJDK7 ~u3 release)

Andïï — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:11:45 -0000

1. No, the IcedTea project provides source releases only. Distros then package this and others are free to use it and possibly contribute back to the project.
We don't have any control over the openjdk.java.net site. This is maintained by Oracle, so, while personally I may share some of your feelings about it, there's not much we can do. We try to maintain a more community-oriented site with our IcedTea wiki: http://icedtea.classpath.org
2. It's a community project. To my knowledge, IcedTea is or has been used in Fedora, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, ArchLinux, BLFS and Slackware and the plugin/javaws component (IcedTea-Web) has been used on FreeBSD.
3. The SPEC files for building the Fedora RPMs are public (http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/... and http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/... but there are other environmental factors involved in building source code (compiler/dependency versions, installed software) that make it difficult to say whether the resulting binary would be identical.
4. If by 'official tck certified binary' you mean the Fedora RPMs, then yes, see the SPEC files.

As to your previous question about the differences between OpenJDK and the proprietary JDK, it's difficult for us to tell accurately as obviously we don't have the source for the latter. But you can look through the source of OpenJDK and find ifdef/ifndef OPENJDK sections in the Makefiles which point to some differences. To my knowledge, the proprietary JDK still uses its own proprietary graphics rendering, font rendering and colour management. I'm not sure if they've finally switched from their own proprietary sound driver to Gervill in 7, but certainly it was the former with 6. I've just noted from the sources that 7 also has com.oracle.security.ucrypto which isn't in OpenJDK.

Re: OpenJDK, IcedTea & NSS

Andïï — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:54:46 -0000

I'm not sure what you're referring to as 'libpkcs11'. The NSS provider used is here: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk...

Re: IcedTea 2.1 Released! (OpenJDK7 ~u3 release)

Ams — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:15:09 -0000

Thanks for clarifying that the " a pass only indicates that a
particular build is compatible when run in a particular environment." I have a couple of more questions.

1) is the IcedTea project going to make binaries for all the major linux distros and run the TCK against them? Or do you expect each to get the TCK and do a build and run agains distro t that, it would be much better for the open source java on Linux community if there was one place where you can get binaries that are certified mainly because then the open source Linux java user community would have one place to congregate.

openjdk.java.net seems to be designed for developers and not the winder end user community, I can't go there to get binaries, and learn what's new in releases ... etc.

openjdk.java.net has too many sub projects, I have to figure out which sub project to subscribe too it is just not user friendly.

Also having a community site for people running openjdk in production would be a great booster to confidence that hey this code is production ready.

2) Is IcedTea is a Redhat project or is it being supported by the other linux distros?

3) if I was to download the tarball linked from your blog post would and i was to build it on Fedora or RHEL would I ened up with exactly the same binaries as the official binary. i.e. is there a way for me to replicate the official build from source.

4) in general are the source tarballs released the same ones that the official tck certified binary is based on?