Linux Sun JDK 1.5?

Greg Lewis glewis at eyesbeyond.com
Thu Oct 14 07:41:56 PDT 2004


On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:55:26PM -0700, Nick Sayer wrote:
> Has anyone gotten the Linux JDK 1.5 to run?
> 
> I have 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8, installed the latest linux_base-8 and modified 
> the linux-sun-jdk15 port to use the 'rc' Linux JDK.
> 
> % /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.5.0/bin/java -version
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> 
> Any idea what's going wrong?

AFAIK, it won't run on 4.x or 5.x.  There has been one report that it runs
under a recent 6-CURRENT.  I don't know if the necessary fixes have gone
into RELENG_5 (or even what they were).

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