From owner-freebsd-java Sun Nov 7 21:36:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6399114ED0; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:36:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA07294; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 22:36:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA29295; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 22:36:21 -0700 Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 22:36:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199911080536.WAA29295@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Cc: java-port@FreeBSD.org Subject: JDK1.2 status X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I vowed to get something out this weekend, but unfortunately I failed. Due to a number of little things that took alot more time than expected, plus the final stumbling block I was unable to create a beta FreeBSD build for FreeBSD. I'll skip the minor details, but the major detail is related to the fact that in order to build a 'publically redistributable' binary, I have to link in Motif statically in the java binary (Java uses Motif). However, if I link it in statically, it fails to work. I don't know why this is, and my feeble attempts to work around it are for naught. At this point, I need to go review the Linux diffs, and see what they've done. It's possible that they aren't worrying about the legal repercussions, or they have a better solution than I'm aware of. In any case, I apologize for not getting something to the facts that are waiting for a native FreeBSD port. However, as I understand it, there appears to be a port for the Linux version which works in emulation mode, although I haven't any experience with it. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message