Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:46:35 -0400 From: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with compiling java programs on FreeBSD from ports Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOus_HgQFPZPm3WBm_RbwJxRQzhfwzpUQ-YuRHo%2BAVq95A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120403151641.GA52490@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <CA%2BWntOv04zZB%2B7CgfpcGaEQHiTqf58BT0ZmwAEwRAROP%2BnrNrg@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BWntOvsN5yb2sWJpb8qb_KtK2o5AVx6vxmgED33rG7o8i-z0Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAMLunXRmtOza8mHVOoG15w=-ZkssUoyK8Wi-cW-9DbE5drnQZg@mail.gmail.com> <CAMLunXS6YB6Zox2AHf-MNxNQRFa-PNSvTp_%2BF3Ut%2BETdB=FkEA@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BWntOt0aZWOwMeemJ12GmrQtUmsR-J9XXQ%2B-j-JZoNgi9r2KQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAMLunXR4Oux5cDwVcu55CSKKLdiSTtxH%2BkMXUuQybp5uYG8sCw@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BWntOuiH4MighOSb6BjfjBybtFOFTNAKx%2Bt4Ys3BmxLfaKVHA@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BWntOs%2BL6mgN2T9UY_yvNNrkvfvPo1pynfdtXhCGZ6ydRe9jQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120403061108.GA46679@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <CA%2BWntOunwkTrs5XBVv1S6ZbAGsgYY25iJQEhdxmC6Q1irxh7ng@mail.gmail.com> <20120403151641.GA52490@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:43:16AM -0400, Super Bisquit wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> > 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 > If Solaris costs money, then I can't finish this porting effort because I am poor.
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