Re: Java/JRE for NetBSD sparc64?

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 18 May 2012 23:02, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> In article <A6A54D06-4F82-405C-A616-6A2EE4357D83%distal.com@localhost>,
> Chris Ross  <cross+netbsd%distal.com@localhost> wrote:
>>
>>  I have a netbsd-5 sparc64 that I'd like to run a java application on.
>>Looking around pkgsrc I'm mosting finding i386/amd64 things only.
>>
>>  Is there a JRE (or the like) for NetBSD sparc64?
>
> Someone cross-built one. It is not hard to do, you just need to convert
> the java, javac, jar commands to ssh to another machine and perform them.

I wonder if it would be useful to create a java wrapper package which installs
a set of java commands for pkg_alternate, all just ssh to a specified host to
run the command. All assuming paths are shared via NFS or similar...

If anyone is interested & needs some pointers I'd be happy to help :)