On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:46:05PM +0100, Nabil Freij wrote: > What about building an android rom image? I believe that still needs > openjdk6? > > Nab > > On 14 June 2012 19:37, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > On 06/13/2012 12:32 PM, Andreas Radke wrote: > > > >> Oracle has declared JRE/JDK7 the preferred one over JRE/JDK6. So it > >> should be now stable enough to replace Java6 for everyone also in the > >> OpenJDK community releases. > >> > >> I'm asking if there's somebody still in the need to use openjdk6 for > >> certain apps that fail to run with openjdk7? If so please report it > >> upstream. > >> > >> I know there's are still some commercial java apps that will only run > >> on the Oracle JRE6 or JRE7 but I ask only if somebody prefers openjdk6 > >> in our repos over java7-openjdk. > >> > >> I'd like to drop openjdk6 when the next security update will be > >> released if possible. > >> > >> -Andy > >> > > > > Andy, > > > > The only issue I've run into lately is the build requirement of 'libhpi'. > > I can't recall which package needed it, but it was only available in > > openjdk6 and is dropped from 7. I don't know how many other libs differ > > between 6 & 7, but for all packages that need libhpi openjdk6 is still > > required. > > > > -- > > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > as another point on this... don't you also need gcc 4.4 as well? I am fairly certain you cannot build it with gcc 4.7 and possibly not 4.6
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