SPARC-64 & JDK 1.3 or better

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:00:15AM -0800, Scott Merritt wrote:

> I'd prefer to run JDK 1.4 ...  Is the best advice to wait around until 
> something becomes more solid, or is there something out there that I 
> should be looking at?  Is using the Linux compatibility the way to go 
> and just get the JDK from Sun directly?  Doesn't this require I use some 
> patches or something?

jdk-1.4.2 is available, and it is the best version of Java available,
certainly on FreeBSD/i386.  However, there's the rub: it only works on
i386 architecture - same deal I think for any of the available JDKs,
except linux-blackdown-jdk13:

    % cd /usr/ports/java
    % grep ONLY_FOR_ARCH *jdk*/Makefile
    diablo-jdk13/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=   i386
    jdk11/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=  i386
    jdk12/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=  i386
    jdk13/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=  i386
    jdk14/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=  i386
    linux-blackdown-jdk12/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=  i386
    linux-blackdown-jdk13/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=  arm i386 ppc sparc
    linux-blackdown-jdk14/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=  i386
    linux-ibm-jdk13/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=        i386
    linux-ibm-jdk14/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=        i386
    linux-sun-jdk12/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=        i386
    linux-sun-jdk13/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=        i386
    linux-sun-jdk14/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=        i386
    linux-sun-jdk15/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=        i386

Quite honestly, and much as it pains me to say it, if you want to use
your E420R to do Java stuff, and especially if you need jdk 1.4.2 or
above, then you'll be much better off putting Solaris on it.

Eventually the Java support will be extended to all platforms, but you
could be waiting quite some time for it.  Try asking on the
freebsd-java@ list about support for other architectures than IA32.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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