Subject: Re: Java, RiscBSD
To: RiscBSD List <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/18/1996 21:26:47
On Dec 18,  9:15pm, Ben Strawson wrote:
> Subject: Java, RiscBSD
>
> Can anyone tell me the current state of the Java port to NetBSD/(RiscBSD)
> and where I can get more information.  Also, I gather there is a port to
> RiscOS - has this been finished yet?

The current state is that the RiscBSD port is nowhere near finished. I keep
realising that what I thought were trivial problems are humdingers and quite
often not problems with Java itself but with things like libc, ld, gcc, etc.
NetBSD/not-arm32 should be trivial(ish) to port to (given a Motif license). The
main problems are related to FP and dynamic linking. I have kludged threads but
I hope Simon is going to provide a better solution soon (well, by the time I
get the rest working).

Cheers

Rob