Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 10:46:14 -0700 From: Pete Delaney <pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net> To: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au, jehamby@lightside.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net Subject: Re: Java - is anyone working on this at all? Message-ID: <199509091746.AA03687@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
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> On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Stephen Hocking wrote:
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> > Last I heard, it was dependent on a functional threads library, which we did
> > not seem to have after 1.1.5. Is anyone
> >
> > a) working on pthreads
> > (yes, it would be nice to have this in the distribution)
> >
> > b) working on Java.
> >
>
> Well the latest pthreads is 1.60 beta 3, which seemed to compile cleanly
> enough under FreeBSD 2.0.5, although when running the verification tests, the
> floating point thread test failed. I will probably investigate this further.
>
> As far Java, that would be VERY interesting to see some people start
> working on a port of this to FreeBSD. If all it needs is a working
> threads library, and pthreads would be adequate to the task, why not
> start a porting team? The important thing is that it has to be a SERIOUS
> effort in order for Sun to give out the source code to HotJava, so if
> anyone wants to start a HotJava porting team, you can count me in...
Did HotJava suffer the same game as OpenWindows. Last I knew the Source code for
Hot Java was available by just filling in a Web form and ftp'ing the source.
I picked up copies of the 2nd and 3ed Beta's and tried compiling them on SunOS
with GCC.
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