Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:38:58 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jdk @ amd64? Message-ID: <84401B9D276C695BCE3FD3D3@palle.girgensohn.se> In-Reply-To: <1100913102.46431.5.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <66F48C43D96D2D4253E5FF62@palle.girgensohn.se> <20041120005856.GB20068@dragon.nuxi.com> <1100913102.46431.5.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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--On fredag, november 19, 2004 17.11.42 -0800 Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:58 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 12:33:51AM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: >> > I've been trying to dig the archives for info about running a native >> > JDK 1.4 on an AMD64 system (Dell 2850, really "EM64T"?). >> > >> > Can anyone get me up to speed with how this is done, if it is >> > possible? Do I need lib32 stuff to run the jdk, and is that what the >> > src/tools/lib32/build32.sh script creates? Is it not possible to run >> > the JDK in "native" AMD64? >> >> Sun did not port the JDK to the AMD64 platform until version 1.5. So if >> you want 1.4 you have to use a 32-bit version. You can either use the >> Linux JDK or maybe even the 32-bit FreeBSD/i386 one. > > JDK 1.5 sources are now available from Sun and the Java team is working > on a native version (first i386, then amd64). I am eagerly awaiting > this myself and have given some thought at trying out 1.5 sources. In > the meantime, I am using jdk 1.4 in Linux32 compatibility mode. This > doesn't help in all cases as things like Eclipse needs a native Java. All I need is tomcat, really. It's a server. Most heavy load is php/database, though. Perhaps I can run the native jdk-1.4 in 32-bit mode? /Palle
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