From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 20 01:39:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19A316A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:39:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from melon.pingpong.net (82.milagro.bahnhof.net [195.178.168.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35FD043D1F for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:39:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from girgen@pingpong.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by melon.pingpong.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE3BD2CE; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:38:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from melon.pingpong.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (melon.pingpong.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09415-03; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:38:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from palle.girgensohn.se (1-2-8-5a.asp.sth.bostream.se [82.182.157.66]) by melon.pingpong.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE156D2AE; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:38:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:38:58 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn To: Sean McNeil , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at pingpong.net Subject: Re: jdk @ amd64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:39:01 -0000 --On fredag, november 19, 2004 17.11.42 -0800 Sean McNeil 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