Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:32:54 +0100 From: tg@award.de To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK port, anyone ? Message-ID: <19971216183254.08680@mail.award.de> In-Reply-To: <199712161731.KAA08730@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 10:31:11AM -0700 References: <19971216170851.08240@mail.award.de> <199712161731.KAA08730@mt.sri.com>
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On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 10:31:11AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > I seem to remember somebody complaining that there was no 'real' JDK-1.1 > > available for FreeBSD. As I'm also a little impaired by the lack of a 1.1 > > JDK, so I was wondering if somebody was currently working on a port. > > Actually, there *is* a JDK1.1 port available for FreeBSD, but not a > latter port. However, diffs to JDK1.1.2 were just made available, see > the freebsd-java mailing list. I know about the port, I've seen it. Unfortunately it doesn't sport a debugger, even if it is only jdb. Without a debugger, it's back to using 1.0.2 or Linux JDK. Also, I was actually thinking of porting 1.1.5, if I can get that one from sun. > > If not, > > I might volunteer to do one. Oops, accidentally used the 'v' word :-). > > However the usual lack of time, the usual work commitments etc. blah blah > > mean that I would not be able to start before the end of January. > > I resemble that remark. :) > > > Before I start, I would actually like to get some answers to the following > > questions: > > - Is there any interest for such a port? Considering my usual state of > > overworkedness, such an undertaking should make sense to more people than > > just myself. I can *probably* live with using the Linux port. > > Of course. However, the Linux port may work much better now due to > recent bugfixes in the Linuxulator. :) > > - Any others that are interested in joining this effort? > > Sure, check out freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Yet another freebsd mailing list that I missed. Thanks. Will subscribe later. > > - Other comments and suggestions are welcone, of course. > > I'm currently building a JDK1.1.2 port using the patches posted about in > the java mailing list, but it won't be distributable due to Motif > licensing. I hope to somehow fix that, but it just depends on the > weather. If it's snows a whole bunch then I'll be outside playing it, > but if the weather is as yucky as it is now over Christmas (40 degrees > and brown) then I'll probably spend more time inside. :( Did you check if lesstif might work? I've found it quite useful. But of course lesstif break GNU emacs if you build it with lesstif, but that's probably not a comment on the stability of lesstif (Just to follow up another thread...). Timo
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