Subject: Re: JDK 1.0.2 for m68k arch
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@romulus.rutgers.edu>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/25/1997 00:33:43
At 22:40 Uhr +0100 24.11.1997, Ken Nakata wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:13:47 +0100,
>Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE> wrote:
>>
>> Kaffe 0.90 and 0.91 do not even pretend to build on MacBSD -- some
>> incompletely defined structs or such. I haven't looked into 0.92, yet, as
>> it comes without AWT support (the library they use has not been upgraded to
>> 1.1).
>
>Really?  I've successfully built 0.91 (I think) on FreeBSD 2.2 (but
>unable to do what I wanted due to the missing native methods for
>Datagram class; the latest, 0.92?, has those, but dumps core whenever
>run), so I naively assumed it would built relatively painlessly on
>NetBSD.  Duh.

They have _some_ support for m68k but iirc you have to have the right cpu
support for the right OS, i.e. m68k support for AmigaDOS doesn't help you
for NetBSD/m68k. Some low-level assembler code was missing for m68k in 0.9x.

	hauke




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