From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 3 15:16:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42264106566B; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 15:16:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (gerbercreations.com [71.39.140.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB25F8FC08; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 15:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (localhost.eyesbeyond.com [127.0.0.1]) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q33FGfoq052692; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 08:16:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q33FGfeb052691; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 08:16:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 08:16:41 -0700 From: Greg Lewis To: Super Bisquit Message-ID: <20120403151641.GA52490@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20120403061108.GA46679@misty.eyesbeyond.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with compiling java programs on FreeBSD from ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:16:44 -0000 On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:43:16AM -0400, Super Bisquit wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Greg Lewis wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:20:05PM -0400, Super Bisquit wrote: > > > Here is where the problem becomes apparent. > > > > > > file /usr/local/java/jre/bin/java > > > /usr/local/java/jre/bin/java: Mach-o executable ppc > > > brandelf -t FreeBSD /usr/local/java/jre/bin/java > > > brandelf: file '/usr/local/java/jre/bin/java' is not ELF format > > > > > > Mr. Lewis, do you know who created the package? I'd like to be able o > > work > > > with him/her to make a native FreeBSD one. > > > > I said up front this was a MacOS X/ppc package that I was providing as an > > example that Zero worked on PowerPC (with a code base that supported > > FreeBSD). > > > > I'll repeat this once more. The code base is likely very close to > > supporting FreeBSD/ppc using the Zero VM. The hard part is going to > > be doing the bootstraping for the initial build. Here is a link to a > > post that goes into some of the details on how you can accomplish this. > > It's what I did when I did a FreeBSD/sparc64 port using Zero. > > > > > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=89377+0+archive/2008/freebsd-java/20080203.freebsd-java > > > > -- > > Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com > > Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com > > Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org > > > > Please believe me when I say that i do not have neither an i386 nor an > amd64 machine to do such. None here belong to me nor do I have the > permission to change what is on them. I have only the RISC- Power, Sparc64- > at my disposal. > I would like to try building from the mercurial source; however, I am not > currently finding the proper hg pull/clone instructions. I may find them > after I send this email. You can't build openjdk from source without a bootstrap JDK. So, whatever machines you have, at least one of them will have to have a compatible working JDK on it. You could, for example, install Solaris on the Sparc64 machine and run a JDK there, but you have to have _something_ with a running JDK. Also, since the bootstrap JDK isn't on the same machine you're building on you'll have to use the technique described in the post I sent a link to above. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org