Newer instructions are simpler.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/openjdk/build/README.txt b/openjdk/build/README.txt
index dff63085..a7df567d 100644
--- a/openjdk/build/README.txt
+++ b/openjdk/build/README.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ which is the browser plugin, and one of "openjdk" or "openjre" packages,
 depending of course on whether you need the full Java compiler suite or
 only the Java Runtime Environment.
 
-You will also need packages for apache-ant, xalan, xerces if you want to
-compile OpenJDK yourself.
+You will also need to install apache-ant if you want to compile OpenJDK
+yourself.  In the past, xalan and xerces were needed separately as well
+but that is no longer needed since apache-ant 1.8.1 and newer has a
+fixed 'ant -diagnostics' command when xerces+xalan are not present.
 
 
 Compiling OpenJDK from source
@@ -67,7 +69,11 @@ as the plugin which is shipped with Oracle's binaries.
 Build-time requirements for OpenJDK and icedtea-web
 ===================================================
 
-A word of caution.  All stable Slackware versions including "13.37" are
+Slackware 14.0 and newer:
+-------------------------
+The gcc and seamonkey packages shipped with the distro can be used unmodified.
+
+A word of caution.  All stable Slackware versions before "14.0" are
 not able to compile OpenJDK "out of the box". You have to enhance two core
 packages: "gcc" and "seamonkey" so that they become capable of compiling
 OpenJDK.  Use the following instructions to fix-up gcc and seamonkey.
@@ -75,6 +81,19 @@ Either alternative is OK but running the shell scripts (the "b" options)
 is a *lot* faster than recompiling these big packages.  These core Slackware
 packages have be fixed in slackware-current.
 
+Slackware 13.37:
+----------------
+You need to upgrade to the seamonkey* packages in the ./patches directory.
+Choose one of these two alternatives to get a compatible gcc-java compiler:
+ a) rebuild gcc with "--enable-java-home".  You can use the gcc.SlackBuild
+    of Slackware-current which was modified accordingly.
+ b) or run the script "create_gcj_jvm.sh" to achieve the same result you
+    would get by rebuilding gcc: which is to create a directory structure
+    of symlinks, which emulates the presence of a Sun JDK but for the
+    GCC Java compiler.
+
+Slackware 13.1 and older:
+-------------------------
 1) Choose one of these two alternatives for gcc:
    a) rebuild gcc with "--enable-java-home".  You can use the gcc.SlackBuild
       of Slackware-current which was modified accordingly.
@@ -93,16 +112,14 @@ Furthermore, you will need to have the following Apache Ant related packages
 installed before starting the compilation of OpenJDK.
 * apache-ant
 * rhino
-* xalan
-* xerces
 
 Please note that after installing apache-ant you will have to logout and
 login again to initialize the ANT_HOME environment variable.
 
 Only the "rhino" package has to remain on your system in order to *run* OpenJDK.
-The other three (apache-ant, xalan and xerces) are only needed during the
-compilation and can optionally be removed afterwards (but why should you).
+Apache-ant is only needed during the compilation and can optionally be removed
+afterwards (but why should you).
 
 
 ==============================================================================
-Eric Hameleers <alien at slackware.com>, 25-feb-2012
+Eric Hameleers <alien at slackware.com>, 30-may-2014