[Chandler-dev] Building Chander 1.0 on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64

[Andi Vajda]

On Aug 15, 2008, at 19:15, Grant Baillie <grant at osafoundation.org>  
wrote:

> Hi, Paul
>
> I believe that to build for 64 bit, you would have to build (or  
> maybe download from openjdk.java.net somewhere) an openjdk-7. I'm  
> pretty sure there are bugs in openjdk-6 that will cause Chandler to  
> crash, so we're sort of stuck with the newer version.

Chandler gas been built on gutsy 64 before. I expect it build on hardy  
64 just as well. As for openjdk 6, I didn't know it existed. If it's  
just an open source version of Java 1.6 then I
expect no problems there either. PyLucene is known to work with Java  
1.3 to 1.7.

Andi..

>
>
> In general, I would love to have the ability to build Chandler's  
> dependencies as .deb or .rpm packages, possibly via a build service.  
> A while back, when OSAF had a large paid developer staff, we looked  
> into doing this, c.f.:
>
> http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/UbuntuHardyHeronChandler
>
> (I think that page was written before we had an openjdk dependency,  
> so that should be added).
>
> I'd love to hear from people who have Linux build/packaging  
> knowledge and want to help make this happen. I have some experience  
> working with dpkg for creating our Gutsy .deb, but I'm unsure how to  
> handle cases where we're using more recent or patched versions of  
> the packaged version of various projects (like openjdk, wxPython,  
> for example).
>
> --Grant
>
> On 14 Aug, 2008, at 13:00, Paul Dorman wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> having a go at building chandler for my up-to-date Ubuntu laptop  
>> (as opposed to Feisty or Gutsy). Doing this of course because  
>> though the project has gotten to a 1.0 release, there doesn't  
>> appear to have been much regard for the diversity of user OS's out  
>> there. I'm not shy and will have a go at building, but just imagine  
>> how many more users you'd have if you just put some effort into  
>> making binaries for current Linux distros!
>>
>> Anyhoo, I checked out 1.0 from subversion and have been running the  
>> build successfully so far. I'm using the "make world" command to  
>> build. For some reason the build script wants to download http://builds.osafoundation.org/external/linux/x86_64/openjdk-7-ea-j2re-b21-3.tar.gz 
>> , which naturally doesn't exist.
>>
>> What's the workaround for this? I already have openjdk-6-jdk on my  
>> system, and as openjdk-7 is not final I'm curious as to the  
>> dependency for a stable Chandler release.
>>
>> Thanks in advance. When I get Chander 1.0 working on my system I'll  
>> be sure to report back on my experience (I could even provide  
>> a .deb for you if it would be useful).
>>
>> Paul (really looking forward to GTD with Chandler!)
>
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