on 4/2/01 11:19 am, Simon Raahauge DeSantis at xiamin@ghostpriest.rakis.net
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 10:36:44AM +0000, Tim Walls wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Does anyone have a recommendation for a JVM which works on
>> Sparc/1.4.2?  I have tried practically everything in pkgsrc and can't
>> get anything to work properly.  Kaffe, for example, just coredumps as
>> soon as you run it.
>> 
>> On the compiler side, Jikes seems to work fine, so I'm half way there ;-).
>> If the only option is to use a 'real'  JDK under SunOS emulation, does
>> anyone have any idea where I can halfinch the libraries needed for
>> emulation?  All the machines in the office are Solaris, so presumably
>> won't have the a.out libs?
>> 
> 
> Couldn't you use Solaris (compat_svr4) then?

I don't know - does that work with 1.4.2 (a.out?)  I assumed that Solaris
binaries were ELF and wouldn't work...  I could upgrade to 1.5 but
(a) I'm in a bit of a hurry to get a working JRE & don't need the agony,
(b) being a Sparc Classic, it needs as little bloat as it can get away
with ;-).

Cheers,
Tim,

-- 
Tim Walls