From owner-freebsd-java Thu May 21 10:21:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15784 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 10:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA15766 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 10:21:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0ycYX1-0004Ff-00; Thu, 21 May 1998 09:49:27 -0700 Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:49:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Nate Williams cc: Devadas Patil , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: javac In-Reply-To: <199805211445.IAA14594@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 21 May 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > To: > ^^^^^^^ > > > I installed jdk1.1.5 by using the tar file from > > www.freebsd.org/java. on a BSDI machine. > > Ain't gonna work. The entire system (including many system calls) is > way different in BSDi vs. FreeBSD. Your best bet is to run Kaffe or > some other VM. I think that many syscalls are the same, as FreeBSD runs many statically linked BSDI binaries, but since the release of BSDI 3.x, the situation has gotten worse. How is Kaffe vs the JRE from the JDK? > I tried getting the FreeBSD JDK working under BSDi (I'm the guy that > built the public FreeBSD JDK) for a friend, but gave up in disgust after > a day or so. The JDK relies on system calls that are simply different > and/or return different values, so I convinced them to switch their > development to FreeBSD instead of using BSDi which has proven mostly > successfull. So BSDI has no native JDK/JRE? That is surprising. > Nate Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message