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From: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: More X question
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
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> > Also:  Has the JDK/HotJava been ported to FreeBSD?
> 
> Don't believe so; there are several people around with the source, but it
> sounds like it was written by a group who either had no idea about 
> portable software, or had a clear pro-Sun bias.

This was posted to -announce back in Feb.

FWIW, I grabbed it and use it here. I've got no complaints with it.

N

	>From owner-majordomo  Tue Feb 13 13:47:33 1996
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	From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu>
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	Subject: JDK 1.0 port to FreeBSD

	Announce
	--------
	I have ports of the JDK 1.0 using Green threads, pthreads, and uthreads.
	This port I'm releasing uses Green threads and is robust enough to
	recompile itself correctly.

	Installation
	------------
	1. Grab ftp.javasoft.com:JDK-1_0-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z.
	2. Grab freefall.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk10.tar.gz.
	3. Untar the solaris binary distribution.
	4. Move aside bin/ and untar the FreeBSD distribution.
	5. Install the pdksh port.

	Running the JDK
	---------------
	If your JDK directory is rooted at <jdk>, you need to set
	  1. your path to include the <jdk>/bin directory
	  2. CLASSPATH environment variable to .:<jdk>/lib/classes.zip
	  3. LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include <jdk>/lib/i386
	Then to compile a java program, invoke 'javac program.java'.
	To run it, use 'java <name of main class>'.

	Status
	------
	This port is kind of flacky and I hesitate to release it, but it
	does meet my long-stated criteria of being self-hosting.  The
	problems are related to the kludgy work-around I used to
	get around not having weak symbols and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT).  The
	pthreads port does not have this problem, so the next release may
	use that instead, but I'm leaning towards fixing up the underlying
	operating system rather than working around it.  The next release
	will come when I get appletviewer to work.

	How you can help
	----------------
	We could use a full-featured dlsym() which understands RTLD_NEXT.
	Weak symbols would help a lot too.  There are people already working
	on the linker, so please coordinate with them if you decide to go
	work on this.

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