other architectures

[Chuck Robey]

Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:16:05PM +0100, Yuri Khotyaintsev wrote:
> 
>>18 mar 2005 17.05, Greg Lewis/You wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:59:22PM +0000, Chuck Robey wrote:
>>>
>>>>I wanted to build java (jdk14) for the OpenOffice-2.0 port, but the
>>>>jdk14 port tells me that for my architecture (I have dual amd64 Opterons
>>>>here) the port is i386 only.
>>>>
>>>>Is this true, or merely that you haven't had time for amd64 yet, and it
>>>>might possibly work?
>>>
>>>You can't compile a native amd64 binary of jdk14.  You can install
>>>an x86 version you've compiled on an x86 machine and I suspect it
>>>would work.  You could also try jdk15 which should build natively on
>>>amd64.
>>
>>Copying jdk14 compiled on x86 to an amd64 machine have not worked for me. 
>>There are some posts on this subject on amd64 list.
> 
> 
> Interesting.  We regularly run an x86 jdk14 on amd64 under Linux at work.
> So I don't believe there is any fundamental reason this shouldn't work.
> It sounds like some sort of complication between the jdk code and the
> 32 bit layer under FreeBSD.
> 

I agree, but running an i386 compiler on an amd64 machine, well, it 
would be a really major pain trying ot keep all of the libraries 
separate.  I tried it once, I will not do that one again, it's just too 
confusing.