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-OpenJDK is an open source implementation of the Java(TM) 2 Platform
-Standard Edition Development Kit. This package is built with the
-IcedTea build and integration project and is thus free software.
-It includes tools for developing, testing, and running programs
-written in the Java programming language.
+OpenJDK is an open source implementation of the Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard
+Edition Development Kit. This package is built with the IcedTea build
+project and includes tools for developing, testing, and running
+programs written in Java.
apache-ant is a required dependency and you have to install it before
you build openjdk. However, you do not need to install Oracle's jdk,
@@ -25,6 +24,13 @@ as it will add new files to the /etc/profile.d folder.
This script may take a couple of hours to finish and will require
about 11 GB of disk space for its temporary directory. It defaults to
-"/tmp/SBo" and you may redefine it by invoking the script like this:
+"/tmp/SBo" and you may redefine it like this:
TMP=/your/temporary/dir ./openjdk.SlackBuild
+
+If you get an error like
+
+Internal compiler error: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ReadManager.run(ReadManager.java:166)
+
+simply run the build again. This happens early so it shouldn't be that of a
+problem. At least 1 out of 5 runs so far have always succeded.