Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:43:29 +0100 From: Yuri Khotyaintsev <yuri@irfu.se> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: other architectures Message-ID: <200503181743.29394.yuri@irfu.se> In-Reply-To: <20050318162130.GA73018@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <423AFADA.502@chuckr.org> <200503181716.05537.yuri@irfu.se> <20050318162130.GA73018@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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18 mar 2005 17.21, Greg Lewis/You wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:16:05PM +0100, Yuri Khotyaintsev wrote: > > 18 mar 2005 17.05, Greg Lewis/You wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:59:22PM +0000, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > I wanted to build java (jdk14) for the OpenOffice-2.0 port, but the > > > > jdk14 port tells me that for my architecture (I have dual amd64 > > > > Opterons here) the port is i386 only. > > > > > > > > Is this true, or merely that you haven't had time for amd64 yet, and > > > > it might possibly work? > > > > > > You can't compile a native amd64 binary of jdk14. You can install > > > an x86 version you've compiled on an x86 machine and I suspect it > > > would work. You could also try jdk15 which should build natively on > > > amd64. > > > > Copying jdk14 compiled on x86 to an amd64 machine have not worked for m= e. > > There are some posts on this subject on amd64 list. > > Interesting. We regularly run an x86 jdk14 on amd64 under Linux at work. > So I don't believe there is any fundamental reason this shouldn't work. > It sounds like some sort of complication between the jdk code and the > 32 bit layer under FreeBSD. It has something to do with implementation of "i386_set_ldt" on amd64. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-amd64/2005-February/003554.h= tml =2D-=20 Yuri Khotyaintsev Institutet f=F6r rymdfysik (IRF), Uppsala tel: +46 18 471 59 29 fax: +46 18 471 59 05
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