>like all who tried to build Jikes 1.0.6 on NetBSD, I found that it requires
>a rudimentary level of wide char support that NetBSD's libc does not
>supply. What is in the pkg system currently only builds on Solaris.
>
>Directed by a pointer on port-mac68k a while ago, I came across a wchar
>library in the contrib subdir of the X11R5 distribution. That library is
>not quite finished and needs a few touches to compile, but it provides the
>five or so functions that Jikes wants.
>
>I have built Jikes against this library on sparc, mac68k and i386 and have
>regular automated builds of a Java project running at work on i386.

	not sure what Jikes requires against libc, but you may want to
	try this one.

	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2000/01/08/0005.html

itojun