From owner-freebsd-java Tue Jan 26 07:57:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23221 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:57:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23214 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:56:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA22958; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:56:48 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA12157; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:56:48 -0700 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:56:48 -0700 Message-Id: <199901261556.IAA12157@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mats Lofkvist Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TowerJ for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199901251818.TAA14152@kairos.algonet.se> References: <199901250143.RAA23403@bubba.whistle.com> <199901250153.RAA07328@rah.star-gate.com> <199901250221.TAA03659@mt.sri.com> <19990124230700.J28999@spiders.com> <199901250646.XAA04606@mt.sri.com> <199901251818.TAA14152@kairos.algonet.se> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > [snip] > The Solaris JIT sources are not released. :( > > How far is FreeBSD from being able to run Solaris binaries? I din't know. > And how hard is it to add a feature allowing a FreeBSD binary (java) > load and run a Solaris shared library (the Solaris JIT) with/without > Solaris binary compatibility to begin with? Really hard. Hard enough that it will probably never be done. See postings on hackers on this where Terry Lambert bogusly declared it was trivial without understanding the details. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message