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Date:      Sat, 3 Oct 1998 08:47:19 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What about jdk-1.1.6 for FreeBSD-3.0-ELF ?
Message-ID:  <199810031447.IAA25091@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981003134121.A16920@cons.org>
References:  <199810022137.BAA04883@ozz.etrust.ru> <199810030042.SAA23680@mt.sri.com> <19981003134121.A16920@cons.org>

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> > > 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

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