Re: OpenJDK binaries

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Mar 1,  4:01pm, smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost ("Steven M. Bellovin") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: OpenJDK binaries

| On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:42:39 +0100
| Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
| 
| > Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > 
| > > 
| > > I put copies of the openjdk binaries I've compiled under current for
| > > amd64 and i386 on
| > > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/christos/openjdk.
| > > 
| > > These are experimental (they probably do not pass the java test
| > > suite), but they should allow you if you want to easily rebuild
| > > them yourself using the openjdk sources and those pre-built
| > > binaries.
| > > 
| > > Please report bugs to the netbsd java mailing list!
| > > 
| > > Enjoy,
| > > 
| > > christos
| > 
| > I think it needs older X11 libs than I have. :(
| 
| So -- what is the best way to run a Java app now?  What packages work
| the best?  (I don't *think* I need the latest and great; I just need
| something that has Java Swing, on both i386 and amd64.)

On amd64 there is no choice. Only native binaries really work. We are
doing something wrong with fs/gs emulation, so the 64 bit binary dies
very early. The 32 bit linux binary core-dumps randomly too, and it
is not good enough to build java itself. On i386, the link 1.6 jdk works
pretty well, as well as the native one. I personally think that the
native binaries work better.

christos