jdk15 from update5 sources

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:52:18PM +0200, Arne H. Juul wrote:
> For those of us who can't use the diablo binary release for one reason or 
> the other, it's a problem that the BSD patches from eyesbeyond.com use the 
> SCSL sources, since there are many problems in those that are fixed in the 
> various update 1 to 6 releases.
> 
> Sun has released sources on tiger.dev.java.net for update 3, 4, and 5 (but 
> not update 6, at least not yet).  These are under the JIUL license which 
> seems to be more permissive than SCSL (too much legalese for me to say for 
> sure).
> 
> So I've downloaded the update 5 sources and applied the 
> bsd-jdk15-patches-3.tar.bz2 (with some rejects).  Then I've fixed the 
> issues with rejected patches and done some changes based on the changes 
> between SCSL sources and update 5 sources (see attached patch).
> 
> The result works pretty well for me when compiled on FreeBSD 4.x for 
> running standalone java applications; I have no idea if it works for 
> webstart, or browser plugins, or as a basis for java frameworks. But maybe 
> somebody else may find it useful to go this route; I still get the 
> occasional crash deep inside the garbage collection parts of the VM but at 
> least this is much more stable than the version I get from compiling 
> ports/jdk the usual way.

Thats kinda cool.  Thanks for doing this :).

One general question, since I haven't had time to compare them, why the
JIUL rather than the JRL?  Do others have comments on the differences
between the two?

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