From owner-freebsd-java Fri Sep 24 17:43:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from matsulab.is.titech.ac.jp (matsulab.is.titech.ac.jp [131.112.35.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC5814FAD for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fuyuhik8@is.titech.ac.jp) Received: from localhost by matsulab.is.titech.ac.jp (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W) with ESMTP id JAA21494; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:42:10 +0900 (JST) To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Announce: New release of JDK1.1.8 for FreeBSD From: MARUYAMA Fuyuhiko In-Reply-To: <199909230514.XAA18035@mt.sri.com> References: <199909230514.XAA18035@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: xcite1.31> Mew version 1.94 on XEmacs 21.2 (Demeter) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990925094245M.fuyuhik8@is.titech.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:42:45 +0900 X-Dispatcher: imput version 990905(IM130) Lines: 31 Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, all! There are both good and bad news. On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:14:29 -0600 nate@mt.sri.com(Nate Williams) wrote: > Notable changes in this release include: > - Better handling of signals like DIVIDE and SIGFPE which are trapped and > handled correctly now. The bad news: I think this change may not be merged in ELF version. Please check the build. It still exists in ELF version. On the other hand, AOUT version works correctly, so problem is not so difficult, I believe ;-). > - The ELF version should work better with AWT/Swing applications. The > FreeBSD project donated a more modern copy of Motif that should avoid > some weird X errors that occurred previously. The good news: New ELF version works well, now I need not to concern about reported problem. Great! Thanks for all people working on/with FreeBSD JDK. -- MARUYAMA Fuyuhiko Matsuoka laboratory, Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message