From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 16 09:49:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA13100 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:49:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA13091 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:49:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA00659; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:48:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA08788; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:48:50 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:48:50 -0700 Message-Id: <199712161748.KAA08788@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: tg@award.de Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK port, anyone ? In-Reply-To: <19971216183254.08680@mail.award.de> References: <19971216170851.08240@mail.award.de> <199712161731.KAA08730@mt.sri.com> <19971216183254.08680@mail.award.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I seem to remember somebody complaining that there was no 'real' JDK-1.1 > > > available for FreeBSD. As I'm also a little impaired by the lack of a 1.1 > > > JDK, so I was wondering if somebody was currently working on a port. > > > > Actually, there *is* a JDK1.1 port available for FreeBSD ... > I know about the port, I've seen it. Unfortunately it doesn't sport a > debugger, even if it is only jdb. In reality, having used almost *every* Java development environment out there (including Cafe, VCafe, JWS 1.0, JWS 2.0, JBuilder, jdb, and others too numerous to mention) there is no such thing as a *working* debugger for Java. :( System.out.println is your friend. :) > using 1.0.2 or Linux JDK. Also, I was actually thinking of porting > 1.1.5, if I can get that one from sun. I just got my copy yesterday after sending in the non-commercial license. > > > - Any others that are interested in joining this effort? > > > > Sure, check out freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org > > Yet another freebsd mailing list that I missed. Thanks. Will subscribe later. This is a new one, so don't feel too bad. > > > - Other comments and suggestions are welcone, of course. > > > > I'm currently building a JDK1.1.2 port using the patches posted about in > > the java mailing list, but it won't be distributable due to Motif > > licensing. I hope to somehow fix that, but it just depends on the > > weather. If it's snows a whole bunch then I'll be outside playing it, > > but if the weather is as yucky as it is now over Christmas (40 degrees > > and brown) then I'll probably spend more time inside. :( > > Did you check if lesstif might work? I've found it quite useful. But of course > lesstif break GNU emacs if you build it with lesstif, but that's probably not > a comment on the stability of lesstif (Just to follow up another thread...). The port I have that uses Lesstif breaks stuff all over the place. Since I make my living doing Java work *AND* I have a Motif license, I don't have time to mess with Lesstif bugs. But, if/when I get a more recent version ported I'll try to make a public version. Nate