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diff --git a/development/openjdk7/README b/development/openjdk7/README
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--- a/development/openjdk7/README
+++ b/development/openjdk7/README
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ OpenJDK 7 is an open source implementation of version 7 of the
Java Development Kit, Standard Edition. It includes tools for
developing, testing, and running programs written in Java.
-This build requires both apache-ant and gcc5. You do NOT need to
-install Oracle's jdk, as apache-ant will work just fine with the jvm
-tools in gcc5.
+This build requires gcc5.
Before installing this package please consider any other jdk's/jre's
that you have already installed as they may cause conflicts with the
@@ -14,18 +12,24 @@ After installing the package you will need to logout/login to your
machine as it will add new files to the /etc/profile.d folder.
This script may take a couple of hours to complete and will require
-about 9 GB of disk space for its temporary directory. It defaults to
+about 11 GB of disk space for its temporary directory. It defaults to
"/tmp/SBo" and you may redefine it like this:
TMP=/your/temporary/dir ./openjdk7.SlackBuild
-The 'cacerts' binary is a keystore containing CA certificates which
+The 'cacerts' binary is a TrustStore containing CA certificates which
are used by Java applications. It is taken from the CentOS package
'ca-certificates-2015.2.4-65.0.1.el6_6.noarch.rpm'.
-NOTE: 32-bit builds are broken ATM but we are still working on it.
-If you would like to help, the problem is when linking the launcher
-the build system insists on trying to link with /usr/lib/libstd++.so.6
-(which belongs to gcc11), instead of the one in
-/usr/lib/gcc/i586-slackware-linux/5.5.0, erroring out with message
-"undefined reference to `__divmoddi4@GCC_7.0.0".
+NOTES
+1. The apache-ant in SBo (1.10.x) is incompatible with openjdk7,
+so the script now uses the previous version (1.9.x) to build.
+
+2. Currently this will only build on 64-bit. On 32-bit, it need to
+link with the libstdc++ in gcc5 but tries to link with the default
+/usr/lib/libstc++ and errors out with the message:
+
+/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: \
+ undefined reference to `__divmoddi4@GCC_7.0.0'
+
+Any help with this issue would be GREATLY appreciated.