From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 19 09:06:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA29519 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:06:49 -0700 Received: from mail1.wolfe.net (mail1.wolfe.net [204.157.98.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA29513 ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:06:47 -0700 Received: from gonzo.wolfe.net (moore@gonzo.wolfe.net [204.157.98.2]) by mail1.wolfe.net (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA08831; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:07:12 -0700 From: Timothy Moore Received: (moore@localhost) by gonzo.wolfe.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id JAA20648; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:04:56 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:04:56 -0700 Message-Id: <199507191604.JAA20648@gonzo.wolfe.net> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com CC: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, jmacd@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: "Amancio Hasty Jr."'s message of Wed, 19 Jul 1995 02:15:24 -0700 <199507190915.CAA02284@rah.star-gate.com> Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 02:15:24 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." >>> Thomas Gellekum said: > I have never seen the question actually answered: is anyone working > on a port? What kind of experience is required (if _you_ say you > don't have enough system-level experience I probably shouldn't be > asking this)? > > tg A quick search showed that there is a Linux mailing list and an Ftp site for the linux work. substance.blackdown.org:/pub/Java/linux There was a reference to Nat Williams for porting the Sun-style Makefiles to gnu-style Makefiles. So I am wondering if anyone out there is holding back info on the current java port for FreeBSD :) Amancio I've been trying to feel this out myself over the last couple of days. There have been no messages on the java-porting list about FreeBSD since you kind of said you gave up, Amancio. If no one speaks up, I'm just about committed to spending 2 months full time on such a project starting Aug. 1. It's a daunting task. Never mind the Sparc assembly code, which seems to be mostly gratuitous except for some code that flushes register windows. There are a *lot* of dependencies on the Sparc register set, stack layout, Solaris threads, etc.... Ah, well. I can never resist a grungy language port. Tim