Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:49:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Devadas Patil <dpatil@cisco.com>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: javac Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980521094650.16322A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199805211445.IAA14594@mt.sri.com>
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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > To: <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> > ^^^^^^^ > > > 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
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