From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 3 07:47:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA14706 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 07:47:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA14696 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 07:47:47 -0700 (PDT) (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 IAA20212; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 08:47:19 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA25091; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 08:47:19 -0600 Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 08:47:19 -0600 Message-Id: <199810031447.IAA25091@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Martin Cracauer Cc: Nate Williams , osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What about jdk-1.1.6 for FreeBSD-3.0-ELF ? In-Reply-To: <19981003134121.A16920@cons.org> References: <199810022137.BAA04883@ozz.etrust.ru> <199810030042.SAA23680@mt.sri.com> <19981003134121.A16920@cons.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > I successfully downloaded jdk1.1.6.V98-9-23.tar.gz > > > But... its in a.out? > > > What about ELF? > > > > Until an ELF Motif library shows up, there won't be an ELF JDK. Note, > > it's really not that big of a deal unless you're doing JNI since it will > > work fine as a.out. > > I'm afraid we will still face a problem here. The jdk links > dynamically to libc, but as I understand Satoshi there will be no > about libs shipped with 3.0. Sure there will. It just won't be in the 'default' distribution, but it will require folks to install the 'compatability' libraries. > Anyway, the C compiler in FreeBSD-3.0 will still be able to produce > about object files. So JNI will be useable with an aout JDK. Right, but this is less than optimal. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message