From owner-freebsd-java Wed Jan 2 9:24:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314E237B416 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 09:24:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA23968; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:23:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g02HNqI57246; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:23:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15411.16936.647666.347903@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:23:52 -0700 To: Greg Lewis Cc: al011757 , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha Java freebsd In-Reply-To: <20020102111811.A12964@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20020102111811.A12964@misty.eyesbeyond.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Hello , I am running freeBSD 4.4 on an Alpha machine , and I would like to install java > > but when I try to make the > > cd /usr/ports/java > > make > > jdk-1.1.8. is only for i386, and you are running alpha. > > > > is there an easy way to install it ? > > There is no native port of the JDK for FreeBSD Alpha. There probably isn't > a lot of work required _if_ you know some Alpha assembly, but noone has had > time or has stepped up to the plate to do this as yet. > > I believe Compaq are the only ones who have a JDK for the Alpha, it may > work under OSF1 emulation, but I couldn't be sure. It does, albeit *very* slowly. (My 486 running Java outruns the Alpha by a large margin). You *must* have a JIT for things to work even moderately acceptable. Compaq donated an Alpha for the port (sitting next to me), so if there is both ability and interest, I can make accounts available on the box for the porting effort. The Compaq JVM can be used to bootstrap a native FreeBSD effort, if so desired. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message