From owner-freebsd-java Mon Mar 1 8: 7:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A865D15374 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:07:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA24012; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:07:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA03100; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:07:10 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:07:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199903011607.JAA03100@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Robin Galloway-Lunn Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java on FreeBSD 3.1 In-Reply-To: <36DAB614.1C3B75FC@advapps.mtn.co.za> References: <36DAB614.1C3B75FC@advapps.mtn.co.za> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm running a 3.1 BSD system which uses elf library formats. Where/when > can I get a jdk for elf systems? The stock JDK works fine, if you add the a.out shared libraries. The only thing the a.out JDK will not be able to provide is JNI support. > Failing this can someone point me at a URL of how to provide backward > binary compatiblity. There might be something in the handbook, but the JDK is no more difficult to use than any other a.out binary such as netscape. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message