[oe] Difficulties building java

[Henning Heinold]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:49:13PM -0500, Mark Butsch wrote:
> I forgot to mention that I am using "stable/2009" branch.

Hm seems stable branch is not in the right shape for java stuff.
> 
> I have been trying different combinations of PREFERRED_PROVIDERS and VERSIONS with no success.
> 
> I searched my openembedded email archive and found someone had a similar error back in June of 2009,
> But there was no solution posted.
> 
> I also found a wiki article that described using the Jalimo-Overlay to build OpenJDK, but I haven't had any
> Success with it either.
> Is the Jalimo-Overlay required to build Java in OE or only in certain cases?

Only the openjdk recipes are left in the jalimo svn all other was merged into dev. So you might need
a checkout before this merge for the stable oe branch to work.
> 
> Still confused,
> 
> Mark

Sorry,

we dont have yet the time to work on the stable branch to get java into shape.

Bye Henning