From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 20:29:35 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 9F80C16A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:29:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mgr2.xmission.com (mgr2.xmission.com [198.60.22.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BCC043D48 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:29:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from [198.60.22.130] (helo=mgr10.xmission.com) by mgr2.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BiJ2q-0003zr-02; Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:29:32 -0600 Received: from [166.70.56.15] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr10.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BiJ2q-0005f3-Po; Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:29:32 -0600 Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (localhost.eyesbeyond.com [127.0.0.1]) i67KTUrs025152; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:29:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i67KTTwN025151; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:29:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:29:29 -0600 From: Greg Lewis To: Alexey Zelkin Message-ID: <20040707202929.GA24977@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <200407072254.09497.tsmm@list.ru> <20040707173804.GA16694@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20040707200707.GA12989@phantom.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040707200707.GA12989@phantom.cris.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mgr10.xmission.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_01 autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 166.70.56.15 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: glewis@eyesbeyond.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.0 (built Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:31:30 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mgr10.xmission.com) 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 20:29:35 -0000 On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:07:07PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > 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. I think thats usually true up to a point, but I was under the impression that at some stage in the development they usually cutover to requiring the same version to do the bootstrapping. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org