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 4.54) id 1FETIs-0005w9-BP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:31:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k21FVICI025571; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:31:18 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k21FVH1j022222 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:31:18 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FETIL-0002Bl-Hm for gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:31:17 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FETI9-0003e6-WF for gentoo-java@gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:31:06 +0100 Received: from 194.42.117.130 ([194.42.117.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:31:05 +0100 Received: from siryes by 194.42.117.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:31:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org From: Wiktor Wandachowicz Subject: [gentoo-java] Re: sun-jdk on AMD64 Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:30:11 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200602281507.18966.daisy@xs4all.nl> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 194.42.117.130 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060218 Firefox/1.5.0.1) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: f44e115e-1c09-4754-8f30-84b5eb56de87 X-Archives-Hash: 7e7f70e0f4a9c7633f59035e5d547797 David Emmett writes: > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10-r2" have been > masked. [snip] > Now according to the Gentoo Handbook, this means that the sun-jdk has not been > tested (sufficiently) on the amd64 architecture. Well, it potentially might make a bit of mess on your system, if you're not careful. For Java 1.4.2 and 64-bit Blackdown JDK indeed is mostly a good choice. Especially if you set it as a default system VM for now. > Can I unmask this package, install it, Yup. It works! See here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-416912.html Keep in mind, though, that the above procedure is not supported (officially) and you get an 32-bit JDK this way. However, that is exactly what needs to be done for using 32-bit sun-jdk-1.4.2 with 32-bit firefox-bin on amd64. Disclaimer: WORKSFORME - YMMV. > and then report any bugs I find using it on this architecture, I don't think you should bother anyone (esp. yourself). Maybe you could post your observations in the aforementioned forum topic instead? > or is there any overwhelming reason > why this won't work? Once again, don't set it as a default JVM and remerge some 64-bit JDK afterwards. Be careful and it should mostly work. There is in the end a 32-bit (x86) support on the amd64 architecture, isn't it? > Thanks for your advice, > > David Emmett You're welcome, Wiktor Wandachowicz -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list