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From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua>
To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:46:16PM -0600, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:07:02PM +0200, Bevin Michael - Munich-MR - external wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply. As I understand it there are typically both native ports of the JDK, plus ports which are based on the linux JDK release using the Linux compatibility. Are both these dependent on the SCSL sources, or just the native port?
> 
> Just the native port.  However, the beta of the Linux 1.5 in the tree fails
> to run at all.  So it looks like we'll be SOOL on that front.
> 
> This is potentially going to cause a bootstrap problem unless the 1.5.0
> release is bootstrappable with 1.4.

Actually it should not.  JDK releases are able to be bootstraped with previous
JDK release.  When I was expirementing with jdk 1.5.0 this spring, I was
able to use jdk 1.4.2 to bootstrap.