Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 02:03:24 -0800 (PST) From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: JDK 1.0 port to FreeBSD Message-ID: <199602141003.CAA05670@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Announce -------- I have ports of the JDK 1.0 using Green threads, pthreads, and uthreads. This port I'm releasing uses Green threads and is robust enough to recompile itself correctly. Installation ------------ 1. Grab ftp.javasoft.com:JDK-1_0-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z. 2. Grab freefall.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk10.tar.gz. 3. Untar the solaris binary distribution. 4. Move aside bin/ and untar the FreeBSD distribution. 5. Install the pdksh port. Running the JDK --------------- If your JDK directory is rooted at <jdk>, you need to set 1. your path to include the <jdk>/bin directory 2. CLASSPATH environment variable to .:<jdk>/lib/classes.zip 3. LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include <jdk>/lib/i386 Then to compile a java program, invoke 'javac program.java'. To run it, use 'java <name of main class>'. Status ------ This port is kind of flacky and I hesitate to release it, but it does meet my long-stated criteria of being self-hosting. The problems are related to the kludgy work-around I used to get around not having weak symbols and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT). The pthreads port does not have this problem, so the next release may use that instead, but I'm leaning towards fixing up the underlying operating system rather than working around it. The next release will come when I get appletviewer to work. How you can help ---------------- We could use a full-featured dlsym() which understands RTLD_NEXT. Weak symbols would help a lot too. There are people already working on the linker, so please coordinate with them if you decide to go work on this.
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