From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H1qMp-0004Rw-3T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:36:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l02KYs8h000587; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:34:54 GMT Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l02KYrDs027476 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:34:53 GMT Received: from pmac.rachaels-web.selfip.net ([71.249.51.225]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JB9004B5D5CLJUM@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:34:25 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:34:23 -0500 From: David Gurvich Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Java with Sun Ultra Sparc 60 In-reply-to: <459ABFA8.4010202@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200701021534.23659.david.gurvich@verizon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-disposition: inline References: <1167768979.4009.18.camel@linux-k67x.site> <459ABFA8.4010202@gentoo.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id l02KYrDs027476 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l02KYs9D000587 X-Archives-Salt: ea85eefd-40eb-4358-bbc9-8a55202f7869 X-Archives-Hash: 156889848ec6e17b334f78f9c8e05523 You might try using gcj as the jdk. That has worked on ppc for many java= =20 packages as well as on amd64. I could not run eclipse with any of the ot= her=20 jvm's. There is a thread in the gentoo forums, topic 379693. On Tuesday 02 January 2007 15:25, Petteri R=E4ty 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) packa= ge > > 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 nothin= g > 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 R=E4ty --=20 *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* KMail on Gentoo/PPC --=20 gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list