In article <20040427231352.GA11967@netmeister.org>,
Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> wrote:
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>Al Urbaitis <avu@lanl.gov> wrote:
>> I am having some trouble installing sun-jdk14-2.2
>> 
>> Target i386 NetBSD 1.6.1
> 
>> then ...
>> make
>> and got the message....
>> sun-jdk14-2.2 is not available for NetBSD-1.6.1-i386
>
>Sun's JDK 1.4.x does not run well on NetBSD-1.6.x.  It requires some
>changes made to the linux emulation code that are currently only
>available in -current and what will become 2.0.
>
>I believe that Sun's JDK 1.3.x does still function under NetBSD 1.6.x,
>but it requires a few kernel options (IIRC) and is still not that great.
>
>If running -current is not an option, then you can try to:
>- download the source code for the Sun JDK
>- download the patches from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java
>- build a native JDK

But you need to be running current to compile the native jdk because
it uses scheduler activations...

christos