From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 16:44:08 2005 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 AD13F16A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:44:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from limicola.its.uu.se (limicola.its.UU.SE [130.238.7.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0D843D2F for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:44:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuri@irfu.se) Received: by limicola.its.uu.se (Postfix, from userid 205) id 9B9BC48B9; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:44:06 +0100 (MEZ) Received: from limicola.its.uu.se(127.0.0.1) by limicola.its.uu.se via virus-scan id s79886; Fri, 18 Mar 05 17:43:58 +0100 Received: from hq.irfu.se (hq.irfu.se [130.238.30.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by limicola.its.uu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324D34826; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:43:58 +0100 (MEZ) Received: from ice.irfu.se (ice.irfu.se [130.238.30.157]) (authenticated bits=0) by hq.irfu.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2IGhuCR022360 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:43:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from yuri@irfu.se) From: Yuri Khotyaintsev Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics To: Greg Lewis Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:43:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <423AFADA.502@chuckr.org> <200503181716.05537.yuri@irfu.se> <20050318162130.GA73018@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <20050318162130.GA73018@misty.eyesbeyond.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503181743.29394.yuri@irfu.se> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on hq.irfu.se cc: Chuck Robey cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: other architectures 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, 18 Mar 2005 16:44:08 -0000 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