From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 20:06:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BCA16A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:06:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from phantom.cris.net (phantom.cris.net [212.110.130.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA7343D2D for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:06:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml@FreeBSD.org.ua) Received: from phantom.cris.net (ml@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phantom.cris.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i67K78So013043; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 23:07:08 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ml@FreeBSD.org.ua) Received: (from ml@localhost) by phantom.cris.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i67K77s7013042; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 23:07:07 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ml) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 23:07:07 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin To: Greg Lewis Message-ID: <20040707200707.GA12989@phantom.cris.net> References: <200407072254.09497.tsmm@list.ru> <20040707173804.GA16694@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040707173804.GA16694@misty.eyesbeyond.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: Mikhail TSaplin cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Java porting project questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 20:06:14 -0000 hi, On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:38:04AM -0600, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:54:09PM +0700, Mikhail TSaplin wrote: > > I have some questions about this freebsd port. > > 1)Why we need linux jdk, when building a native distr? > > Is that necesarily to build compiler with classes semultaneusly? > > Just like gcc needs a C compiler to bootstrap itself, javac needs another > java compiler to bootstrap itself (as its written in Java). So far, we > have used the Linux version to bootstrap unless an existing native version > is available. It may be possible to use Jikes, but there would need to be > some patches to the build to achieve this. This may become necessary for > the 5.0 (aka 1.5) port as the Linux version doesn't currently run under > emulation. It always was possible to use previous release of jdk to bootstrap next one. As my expirement shown-- it's possible to use jdk 1.4.2 to bootstrap of jdk 1.5.0. So, it should not be a problem.