From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 11:54:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7383916A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:54:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 454BD43D2F for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:54:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (e6ea9e96bf543b2b89dec42fe069f9d7@adsl-67-119-53-203.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.203])i24JsRrA016810; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:54:27 -0600 (CST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A8D6751724; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:54:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:54:26 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Matthew Seaman , Scott Merritt , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040304195426.GB75417@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <40476EAF.6070006@smerritt.com> <20040304192039.GA1159@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wq9mPyueHGvFACwf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040304192039.GA1159@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: SPARC-64 & JDK 1.3 or better X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:54:30 -0000 --wq9mPyueHGvFACwf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:20:39PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:00:15AM -0800, Scott Merritt wrote: >=20 > > I'd prefer to run JDK 1.4 ... Is the best advice to wait around until= =20 > > something becomes more solid, or is there something out there that I=20 > > should be looking at? Is using the Linux compatibility the way to go= =20 > > and just get the JDK from Sun directly? Doesn't this require I use som= e=20 > > patches or something? >=20 > jdk-1.4.2 is available, and it is the best version of Java available, > certainly on FreeBSD/i386. However, there's the rub: it only works on > i386 architecture - same deal I think for any of the available JDKs, > except linux-blackdown-jdk13: Work is underway to port jdk1.3 to FreeBSD/sparc64 (porting it is apparently much easier than 1.4), but it's not available yet. If you need something immediately then you should either stick with Solaris for now, or use an i386 machine. > linux-blackdown-jdk13/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=3D arm i386 ppc sparc That one's bizarre, we don't support arm, ppc or "sparc" (only sparc64). Kris --wq9mPyueHGvFACwf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAR4lxWry0BWjoQKURAm2zAJ9i7GIdlimmvQeonrjRCmbHdBPwYACdEW2E eX1aA2NbI00p3TXZTr8XwLY= =NSUS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wq9mPyueHGvFACwf--