Problems with compiling java programs on FreeBSD from ports

[Super Bisquit]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:43:16AM -0400, Super Bisquit wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:20:05PM -0400, Super Bisquit wrote:
> > > > Here is where the problem becomes apparent.
> > > >
> > > > file /usr/local/java/jre/bin/java
> > > >  /usr/local/java/jre/bin/java: Mach-o executable ppc
> > > > brandelf -t FreeBSD /usr/local/java/jre/bin/java
> > > > brandelf: file '/usr/local/java/jre/bin/java' is not ELF format
> > > >
> > > > Mr. Lewis, do you know who created the package? I'd like to be able o
> > > work
> > > > with him/her to make a native FreeBSD one.
> > >
> > > I said up front this was a MacOS X/ppc package that I was providing as
> an
> > > example that Zero worked on PowerPC (with a code base that supported
> > > FreeBSD).
> > >
> > > I'll repeat this once more.  The code base is likely very close to
> > > supporting FreeBSD/ppc using the Zero VM.  The hard part is going to
> > > be doing the bootstraping for the initial build.  Here is a link to a
> > > post that goes into some of the details on how you can accomplish this.
> > > It's what I did when I did a FreeBSD/sparc64 port using Zero.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=89377+0+archive/2008/freebsd-java/20080203.freebsd-java
> > >
> > > --
> > > Greg Lewis                          Email   : glewis at eyesbeyond.com
> > > Eyes Beyond                         Web     :
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> > > Information Technology              FreeBSD : glewis at FreeBSD.org
> > >
> >
> > Please believe me when I say that i do not have neither an i386 nor an
> > amd64 machine to do such. None here belong to me nor do I have the
> > permission to change what is on them. I have only the RISC- Power,
> Sparc64-
> > at my disposal.
> > I would like to try building from the mercurial source; however, I am not
> > currently finding the proper hg pull/clone instructions. I may find them
> > after I send this email.
>
> You can't build openjdk from source without a bootstrap JDK.  So, whatever
> machines you have, at least one of them will have to have a compatible
> working JDK on it.  You could, for example, install Solaris on the Sparc64
> machine and run a JDK there, but you have to have _something_ with a
> running JDK.  Also, since the bootstrap JDK isn't on the same machine
> you're
> building on you'll have to use the technique described in the post I sent a
> link to above.
>
> --
> Greg Lewis                          Email   : glewis at eyesbeyond.com
> Eyes Beyond                         Web     : http://www.eyesbeyond.com
> Information Technology              FreeBSD : glewis at FreeBSD.org
>
If Solaris costs money, then I can't finish this porting effort because I
am poor.