Re: which source package has the source for javac in openjdk?

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@linkchoose.co.uk>]

On Monday 07 December 2009, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:58 PM, David Goodenough
> 
> <david.goodenough@linkchoose.co.uk> wrote:
> >> The orig.tar.gz is probably the only one you need though.
> >
> > That does NOT seem to contain the source of the compiler.  There 
should
> > be a file called TreeMaker.java, and it is not present (at least find can
> > not find it).  There is a directory rt, which contains (as the
> > openjdk-6-src package does) the run time source, but I can not find the
> > source of the compiler in that.
> 
>   That's because the package use the so called tar-in-tar strategy.
> There is another archive within the archive tarball; this one contains
> the file you're looking for:
> 
> tar tvzf openjdk-6-src-b16-24_apr_2009-dfsg.tar.gz| grep -i treemaker
> -rw-r--r-- doko/doko     30894 2009-04-24 09:35
> langtools/src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/tree/TreeMake.java
> 
>   Admitedly, this way of packaging is not the most transparent there is.
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>       Vincent
> 
Yes, that is it.  Not easy to find, but at least I now know where to look.

Thanks

David