From owner-freebsd-java Thu Sep 14 9: 9:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.isltd.insignia.com (gatekeeper.isltd.insignia.com [195.217.222.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E386F37B424 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saracen.isltd.insignia.com (saracen.isltd.insignia.com [193.112.17.171]) by gatekeeper.isltd.insignia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA10887; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:09:23 +0100 (BST) Received: from luggage.isltd.insignia.com (luggage.isltd.insignia.com [193.112.17.47]) by saracen.isltd.insignia.com (8.8.4/BSCF-1.2) with SMTP id RAA01148; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:09:15 +0100 (BST) From: Martin Hopkins MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14784.63531.205427.200590@luggage.isltd.insignia.com> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:09:15 +0100 (BST) To: behanna@zbzoom.net Cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java v1.3 JDK/JRE for FreeBSD v4.x In-Reply-To: References: <14784.57922.612692.949082@luggage.isltd.insignia.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Chris" == Chris BeHanna writes: Chris> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Martin Hopkins wrote: >> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris BeHanna writes: >> Chris> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Nate Williams wrote: >> >> > In dealing with the Netscape issue, I was reminded of the latest Java >> >> > implementation on v1.3 of the JDK/JRE. Has there been effort to >> >> > add Java JDK/JRE v1.3 to -current or possible -STABLE?!? >> >> >> >> Because Java is not open-source, it will never become a default part of >> >> the FreeBSD OS. >> >> >> >> An external port of JDK1.2.2 is in the works, to be followed by a JDK1.3 >> >> release. Followups to freebsd-java. >> Chris> Just FYI (and I won't continue in this forum), but I've Chris> semi-successfully gotten IBM JDK 1.3.0 for Linux to run on FreeBSD Chris> 4.1-STABLE. I've had no luck at all with Sun's version, which is Chris> pretty much hard-wired to run on RedHat, period. It won't even run on Chris> Slackware. >> >> Are you refering to Sun's jdk-1.3-RC1. Chris> Yes. >> If so I downloaded the sh >> archive last night and it seems to run on 4.1-STABLE (very limited >> testing).. I do get a "cannot uninstall alt signal stack warning" on >> exit. The only thing I've changed is >> >> >> --- bin/.java_wrapper~ Mon Aug 28 08:36:50 2000 >> +++ bin/.java_wrapper Wed Sep 13 19:35:08 2000 >> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ >> -#!/bin/sh >> +#!/compat/linux/bin/sh >> >> # >> # @(#)java_wrapper_linux.sh 1.8 00/05/19 Chris> Very interesting. >> Are you refering to the RPM distribution? Chris> I was referring to the gzipped tarball. As you say, very interesting. The only other problem I remember was that my netscape managed to download the distribution in ascii mode. A bit more testing (using -classic i.e green threads, nojit) has just caused looutput: mbuf allocation failure Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode I'll investigate further when I get a chance. Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message