FreeBSD Java porting project questions

[Greg Lewis]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:54:09PM +0700, Mikhail TSaplin wrote:
> I have some questions about this freebsd port.
> 1)Why we need linux jdk, when building a native distr?
>   Is that necesarily to build compiler with classes semultaneusly?

Just like gcc needs a C compiler to bootstrap itself, javac needs another
java compiler to bootstrap itself (as its written in Java).  So far, we
have used the Linux version to bootstrap unless an existing native version
is available.  It may be possible to use Jikes, but there would need to be
some patches to the build to achieve this.  This may become necessary for
the 5.0 (aka 1.5) port as the Linux version doesn't currently run under
emulation.

> 2)What are you think about java (and of course jdk) future on freebsd.
>    I saw freebsdfoundations last message dated last year, and nothing more.
>    Doesnt project stop or going to?

The project is still going, expect to hear more soon.

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