Re: [gentoo-java] Java with Sun Ultra Sparc 60

[David Gurvich <david.gurvich@verizon.net>]

You might try using gcj as the jdk.  That has worked on ppc for many java 
packages as well as on amd64.  I could not run eclipse with any of the other 
jvm's.  There is a thread in the gentoo forums, topic 379693.

On Tuesday 02 January 2007 15:25, Petteri Räty wrote:
> harald kirjoitti:
> > Hello,
> >
> > recently downloaded and installed Gentoo on my Sparc Sun machine.
> > Unfortunately i did not find any package containing java for this
> > architecture. is it possible to install any other java (source) package
> > instead? is java support planned by gentoo foundation for these types of
> > machines?
> >
> > please let me know, java support is very important for me.
>
> The sparc arch team does not currently support java so basically nothing
> java has sparc keywords. This is because none of the closed source vms
> work on sparc and the arch team was not interested in FOSS solutions at
> that time. They can probably shed more light on their future plans
> themselves.
>
> Regards,
> Petteri Räty

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