On Wednesday 20 April 2005 01:49, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> ok, i've recently gotten into toying with java, and i have the question of:
>
> is running java going to happen for port-macppc?  i've got plenty of
> Solaris boxes here to run it on, or will once i get them setup, and in the
> meantime, i would like to do some devel work on my mac.
>
> is this reasonable?  does java even work well on NetBSD?  the source code
> *is* available, does sun include enough to build a working Java from it? 
> would porting be something i might want to look at for the good of NetBSD? 
> all the "best" jdk stuff seems to be linux that we are running via compat.
>
> -brian

It seems this should work... I've used pkgsrc/lang/blackdown-jdk13

% uname -a
NetBSD powerbook.serah.tvb 3.0_BETA NetBSD 3.0_BETA (TWILIGHT) #0: Fri Mar 25 
08:19:11 GMT 2005  
serah@powerbook.serah.tvb:/usr/obj/sys/arch/macppc/compile/TWILIGHT macppc
% java -version
java version "1.3.1"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 
Blackdown-1.3.1-02b-FCS)
Classic VM (build Blackdown-1.3.1-02b-FCS, green threads, nojit)
I hope this is what you were looking for :)

david