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

Note that we at Sun do not provide "The JDK" for SPARC+Linux.  For some 
reason the only SPARC port we provide runs on Solaris ;-) fancy that.  
After we finish open sourcing the openjdk project I imagine more headway 
could be made to supporting the openjdk on other architecture/OS 
combinations than we provide from Sun.  Unfortunately that doesn't help 
you today.

- David Herron