IcedTea 1.5 released with PPC support

We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea 1.5.

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from
OpenJDK (http://openjdk.java.net) using Free Software build tools and
provides replacements libraries for the binary plugs with code from the
GNU Classpath project. More information on IcedTea can be found here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org


What's New?
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* ppc/ppc64 support.
* ecj bootstrapping re-implemented.
* Updated to OpenJDK b24 build (now uses mercurial).
* System libraries (libpng, libjpeg, zlib, giflib) are used
instead of OpenJDK's implementations.
* Many, many, many other bug fixes
(http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/ and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/).


The tarball and nosrc RPM can be downloaded here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/


The following people helped with this release:
Gary Benson, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Andrew Haley, Lillian Angel, Joshua
Sumali, Matthias Klose, Matthew Flaschen, Francis Kung.


We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!


Lillian.

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$ hg clone http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea
$ cd icedtea

Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL:
$ ./configure
$ make

When this completes you'll have a usable IcedTea in
openjdk/build/linux-i586 or
openjdk/build/linux-amd64 or
openjdk/build/linux-ppc or
openjdk/build/linux-ppc64