Subject: Re: Follow-up java 2 on netbsd/i386
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/01/2003 06:17:27
In article <95B0CEF0-35A7-11D7-B5E5-000A9568668A@bartram.org>,
Scott Bartram <scott@bartram.org> wrote:

Does this version [wasabi port] use sa-pthreads?

christos

>On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:38 PM, Michael Graff wrote:
>
>> Erik Osheim <eosheim1@swarthmore.edu> writes:
>>
>>> Nick Cuccia clued me in to sun's java packages in pkgsrc
>>> (sun-jdk13,sun-jdk14) which I must have missed. I've installed them
>>> and everything seems to work well.
>>
>> What ever happened to a native port of sun's jvm to netbsd?  Wasn't
>> this something wasabi was going to do?
>>
>> --Michael
>
>It's already been done for i386 and powerpc and in-progress for sparc.
>The problem is that we can't release a binary package until some very
>complex license issues are resolved. I honestly don't know what the
>status of those issues are - I lost faith it would ever get done a
>long time ago :-(
>
>The adventurous can build it themselves by downloading the Sun source
>and *BSD patches from: 
>http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html
>
>scott
>