From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 3 14:43:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1692C106566B; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 14:43:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from superbisquit@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEDF88FC15; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 14:43:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbcwz17 with SMTP id wz17so6029969pbc.13 for ; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:43:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=5WC+z56zmcEatL5DshmRmQoqKRflhj7JsyVOlyvsYo8=; b=IX1PQFgyjFOz8AXJ9eeMGS8KFFgnQjgPFfJnSbKPaWASBa8QjbvphPtnWZ+fwYCk7D 493h8NWF6qL/rsV0btUZ/YEA0GWANIlUhX7zksXEeML2Y15I6dUUG26pN4LKMkkpcvmy uGSs1EIorwZqqh1RM6G0tjGNzoBz9YAB7ZGPnctnYIDa57kEFT5ZxQ0Rq7xWGrH1X5W+ cLs9ctPX8n9NWjo3EHgOdKhOntIDz9ZJ4WDc3v2fRDjSWZVHTkODahPEGzmKxFhwQ8oF jOVkDphlTh9LKFC+aZI/Ynmhb/RDaCDq+u0YHntBXd1jq7o0brNruXMPthTO3qUy2bG3 gZeg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.200.199 with SMTP id ju7mr28917925pbc.122.1333464196128; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.189.103 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 07:43:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120403061108.GA46679@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20120403061108.GA46679@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 10:43:16 -0400 Message-ID: From: Super Bisquit To: Greg Lewis Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with compiling java programs on FreeBSD from ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:43:17 -0000 On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:20:05PM -0400, Super Bisquit wrote: > > Here is where the problem becomes apparent. > > > > file /usr/local/java/jre/bin/java > > /usr/local/java/jre/bin/java: Mach-o executable ppc > > brandelf -t FreeBSD /usr/local/java/jre/bin/java > > brandelf: file '/usr/local/java/jre/bin/java' is not ELF format > > > > Mr. Lewis, do you know who created the package? I'd like to be able o > work > > with him/her to make a native FreeBSD one. > > I said up front this was a MacOS X/ppc package that I was providing as an > example that Zero worked on PowerPC (with a code base that supported > FreeBSD). > > I'll repeat this once more. The code base is likely very close to > supporting FreeBSD/ppc using the Zero VM. The hard part is going to > be doing the bootstraping for the initial build. Here is a link to a > post that goes into some of the details on how you can accomplish this. > It's what I did when I did a FreeBSD/sparc64 port using Zero. > > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=89377+0+archive/2008/freebsd-java/20080203.freebsd-java > > -- > Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com > Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com > Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org > Please believe me when I say that i do not have neither an i386 nor an amd64 machine to do such. None here belong to me nor do I have the permission to change what is on them. I have only the RISC- Power, Sparc64- at my disposal. I would like to try building from the mercurial source; however, I am not currently finding the proper hg pull/clone instructions. I may find them after I send this email.