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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fw3mE-00057v-Ku for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:10:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5TL97dg009284; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:09:07 GMT Received: from banta-im.com (roy-rogers.nfic.com [208.231.230.100]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5TL96eS015719 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:09:07 GMT Received: from by banta-im.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA19053; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:08:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44A44152.5030700@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:08:34 -0400 From: Joshua Nichols User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060510) 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 To: Calvin Austin CC: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Miroslav_=A9ulc?= , gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Java and AMD64 References: <44A437D2.4050507@startnet.cz> <44A438D8.5050201@gentoo.org> <44A43D33.5080605@spikesource.com> In-Reply-To: <44A43D33.5080605@spikesource.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 91bbbeda-4935-4b1f-918d-dbe4fdf8af57 X-Archives-Hash: bd88828a32f52202a1e951effaf713fb Calvin Austin wrote: > The blackdown 1.4.2 JDK has most of the Sun Java 5 amd64 changes, > however I would strongly recommend Miroslav that you don't use 1.4.2 > for amd64 bit. Apart from being over 4 years old there are some linux > issues that we could only fix in 5.0. > That may be true, but a 1.4 JDK is still necessary for building packages that don't like 1.5, and Blackdown is the option you have on AMD64. For end-users though, certainly, go with a 1.5 JDK. - Josh -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list