From owner-freebsd-java Wed Aug 30 2: 6:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.research.kpn.com (hermes.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 666FD37B42C for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 02:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by research.kpn.com (PMDF V5.2-31 #42699) with ESMTP id <01JTKUP1JCD4000D6U@research.kpn.com> for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:06:33 +0200 Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:06:33 +0100 Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:06:32 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." Subject: BDK and JITs (and NetBSD) To: 'FreeBSD Java mailing list' Message-id: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D77F9@l04.research.kpn.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear All, One: The BDK dumps core if you've compiled the JDK with lesstif. If you haven't moved to openmotif, I guess now is as good a time as any. Thanks to Alec Kalinin for finding this out (the hard way). Two: I've tried to follow my own instructions to install a JIT, after some reports that they did not work properly. They are indeed quite useless. :-/ If I install the *FreeBSD ports* of either shuJIT or TYA, I cannot seem to to use those with our JDK port. After digging up the actual reason why it cannot find the JIT, it turns out that there are unresolved symbols in both of them (lock_something in TYA and resolveClass in shuJIT). I lost the actual names when my machine drowned in microtime problems, but I can dig them up again if anyone is interested. Has anyone gotten these ports to work? I wish Sun would clean up their exception handling. You don't catch an exception, only to throw the exact same exception with the message useful stripped off and replaced with a "friendly" but utterly useless message. The JDK is a programming tool, it does not have to be perfectly user friendly. Three: While typing up this e-mail I have received some new toys for the NetBSD port: a Sun IPX, a Sun Javastation and an HP712/100. Anyone up for a NetBSD port of the JDK? Does anyone know where to get the boot image for the Javastation? :) Kees Jan ================================================= TV is the worst of both worlds. It's not as good at words as radio is because the pictures are a distraction which demand attention, and it's not as good as cinema because the pictures are not nearly as good. [Douglas Adams] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message