From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 3 11:38:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08488 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:38:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08464 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA13676; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 14:37:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 14:37:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Nate Williams cc: Martin Cracauer , osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What about jdk-1.1.6 for FreeBSD-3.0-ELF ? In-Reply-To: <199810031447.IAA25091@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > 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. I'm taking from this that not having a Motif lib in elf is dragging things back. I'm totally non-suprised (I've been nagging XiG to get by personal favorite one done for a while now). I would hope that, when someone _does_ find a vendor of Motif in ELF, there will be a quick announcement on the lists ... don't consider it advertising, we _need_ this. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message