Subject: Re: Java Virtual Machine on NetBSD/Sparc (1.4.2)
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Tim Walls <tim@snowgoons.fsnet.co.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/05/2001 00:39:54
On Sun, 04 Feb 2001, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Tim Walls wrote:
>
> : 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.
>
> If you don't mind restricting yourself to JDK 1.1.x, there's a *native* port
> of 1.1.8 in pkgsrc/jang/jdk. There's no native 1.2/1.3 port *yet* due to
> licensing issues, but that is being worked on.
I spotted that JDK, but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work; c.f
> pwd
/usr/pkgsrc/lang/jdk
> make
===> jdk-1.1.8 is not available for NetBSD-1.4.2-sparc
> The 1.2.2 Sun release for Solaris should work under compat_svr4 emulation.
I shall have a go at that - thanks to everyone for the assistance!
Cheers,
Tim.
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