Subject: Re: java native on NetBSD?
To: Stephan Thesing <thesing@cs.uni-sb.de>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
List: current-users
Date: 06/28/2002 23:40:11
Stephan Thesing <thesing@cs.uni-sb.de> writes:
>the FreeBSD people have a more or less working JDK 1.3.1 port,
>which can be build from the JDK 1.3.1 sources and a patchset.
>NetBSD is also supposed to be supported by their patchset,
>but at least on -current (and 1.5.* I suppose) this does not work.
>I have made some patches and sent them to Simon Gerraty
>(after he posted on a NetBSD mailing list)
I'm happy to report that indeed these patches get 1.3.1 working
on 1.6/i386. I'm still testing - after removing some changes that
look like they should no longer be necessary.
None of this helps sparc etc, but getting a good i386 port
is a good starting point.
--sjg