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 1H1qtx-0004f4-Ae for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:10:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l02L9rNw011611; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:09:53 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l02L9rp8021365 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:09:53 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.213] (unknown [216.200.97.58]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C5E64D35 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Java Support on Sparc plattform. From: Ferris McCormick To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <459AC155.9010404@gentoo.org> References: <1167769110.4009.20.camel@linux-k67x.site> <459AC155.9010404@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-LWE89Hh+UxI2EGw1s79p" Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:09:50 +0000 Message-Id: <1167772190.4288.149.camel@liasis.inforead.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 X-Archives-Salt: e7942e86-6462-4fe4-87e9-199a640b55ea X-Archives-Hash: 50910d74c471fdc3caf93b7614a1534a --=-LWE89Hh+UxI2EGw1s79p Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 14:32 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > harald wrote: > > Hello, > >=20 > > 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 o= f > > machines? >=20 > The foundation has very little to do with development. >=20 > > please let me know, java support is very important for me.=20 >=20 > Last I heard, the last version of java that worked on sparc was blackdown= 1.4.2=20 > (or something like that), but it had a security bug. If java on sparc is = really=20 > important to you, then you probably need to run Solaris. Alternatively, y= ou can=20 > convince the blackdown guys (or one of the other JRE/JDK providers) to do= =20 > another sparc release. Rumor has it that sun is opening the source to their JRE/JDK, although I can't confirm nor do I know quite what that actually means. If true, though, a user on IRC has expressed a strong interest in working on it, and if all that happens, I am sure we would support the effort. Unfornately I don't recall off hand who that was. You might /join #genoo-sparc (on freenode) and ask who the user is and make contact with him. There are one or two java source packages in portage which do build and run. But if "java support is very important for [you]," you would almost certainly find them to be deficient. >=20 > --=20 > Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney= / > Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Projec= t > Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxiate on a phallus= " Hoping this information is useful to you, Regards, --=20 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) --=-LWE89Hh+UxI2EGw1s79p Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-ecc01.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFmsoeQa6M3+I///cRAuQ6AJ9cxjtJvVET+XV+GDeciu8poM/xpQCgmP9f fGQ415/6xJLoT42ZAMDBrRg= =Ghl1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LWE89Hh+UxI2EGw1s79p-- -- gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org mailing list