Comments on: IcedTea6 1.3 Released!

By: Evgueni Gordienko

Evgueni Gordienko — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:28:32 +0000

Thanks for clarification.

So only files from
com/sun/jmx/snmp/
and
sun/management/snmp/
are not covered by GPL2 – correct?

By: Lillian

Lillian — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:57:32 +0000

Since b10, OpenJDK 6 has only had the not-required-by-the-specification SNMP plug so IcedTea does not have to do any binary plug replacement for OpenJDK 6 anymore.

Though IcedTea includes missing features such as porting, visualvm, javaws support and the browser plugin. They are both (IcedTea6 and OpenJDK6-b10+) true GPL2.

By: Evgueni Gordienko

Evgueni Gordienko — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:52:17 +0000

Wow – stripe produces 4MB libjvm.so.
My bad – I should try ‘file libjvm.so’ and everything would be clear.
I thought build stripes .so libraries.
I will stripe few other files to decrease footprint on target embedded device.

Thanks a lot!

Now one question about license. My understanding is OpenJDK still has some minor proprietary Sun stuff and icedtea just substitutes it with right pieces from classpath project.
After that is the produced build true GPL2?

By: gbenson

gbenson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:18:28 +0000

Evgueni, the size issue is probably because your libjvm.so is probably not stripped. Try running “strip j2re-openjdk1.6.0-b12/lib/ppc/server/libjvm.so”.

The reason it’s server only is because the way the OpenJDK build system is laid out is for builds to always contain a server JVM and optionally to contain a client one. We only have one type of JVM on ppc (and other Zero architectures) so it gets installed as server.

By: Evgueni Gordienko

Evgueni Gordienko — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:20:20 +0000

I build successfully openjdk with icedtea1.3 on fedora7 powerpc (mini mac) though installer could not find libffi – it was in /usr/local/lib but installer looked for it /usr/lib. So NBD – copied libffi to /usr/lib and it completed in 16 hours.

Thanks a lot! My app is running on target device just fine!

But here is an issue – the size of libjvm.so is huge – 70MB:
ls -al ./j2re-openjdk1.6.0-b12/lib/ppc/server/libjvm.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 70759486 Oct 11 23:13 ./j2re-openjdk1.6.0-b12/lib/ppc/server/libjvm.so.

I checked fedora9 rpm and libjvm.so has size is 4MB.

What could be wrong?

Another question is – why it is server only (no client jvm is included)?

Regards,
Evgueni

By: Dalibor Topic

Dalibor Topic — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:51:07 +0000

Congrats, I’m looking forward to the new version hitting rawhide!

By: Lillian

Lillian — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:02:18 +0000

Within a week or so it will be in rawhide

By: Rafael Gomes

Rafael Gomes — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:00:12 +0000

Very good!

Do you know when this package will be to Fedora testing repository ?

Thanks for this information, I created a article about this in Fedora Project from Brasil.

Bye!

By: Lillian

Lillian — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:47:48 +0000

java-1.6.0-openjdk replaced java-1.7.0-icedtea.

IcedTea6 is the name of the repository, and our version of the OpenJDK build (OpenJDK6-b12 + IcedTea patches)

From the Fedora Release notes:
“OpenJDK contributes ~99% of the code in the java-1.6.0-openjdk package and IcedTea continues to provide autotools support, a portable interpreter for ppc and ppc64 support, plugin support, Web Start support and patches to integrate OpenJDK into Fedora. The IcedTea sources are included in the java-1.6.0-openjdk SRPM.”

By: vwbusguy

vwbusguy — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:21 +0000

Does this mean IcedTea will be back in Fedora 10? I was thinking it was _replaced_ by OpenJDK in Fedora 9.