From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 13:45:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E4616A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:45:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (glewis.dsl.xmission.com [166.70.56.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3309943D39 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:45:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (localhost.eyesbeyond.com [127.0.0.1]) i8HDjOTq069555; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:45:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i8HDjJQj069554; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:45:19 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:45:19 -0600 From: Greg Lewis To: Alexey Zelkin Message-ID: <20040917134519.GA69537@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <14C413EDD4FDAB48924086C19BF44F872E053C@MUCS040151.munich.munichre.com> <20040917054616.GA16333@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20040917071229.GA18547@phantom.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040917071229.GA18547@phantom.cris.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Bevin Michael - Munich-MR - external cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.5 / 5.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:45:26 -0000 On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:12:29AM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > 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. Maybe so, but you certainly can't bootstrap 1.4.2 with 1.3.1 for example. I can't recall an earlier release that was bootstrappable at release time by the previous release. They usually drop that feature later in the development cycle. Hopefully they haven't this time, but I'm not holding my breath :). -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org