Subject: Re: amd64 jdk 1.4.x/1.5 port
To: None <netbsd-java@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-java
Date: 11/13/2004 02:50:40
In article <20041112081434.34626.qmail@web60007.mail.yahoo.com>,
Anil Gopinath <anil_public@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Folks,
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>Has anybody ported the sun's jdk 1.4.x or 1.5 to run on netbsd amd64?
>The instructions on the freebsd and openbsd mailing lists point to the
>need for an initial JVM to boot strap the build. 
> 
>Any suggestions on how I could get a boot strap JVM on an amd64 box
>running netbsd?

That port will be forthcoming after we get the 1.4 BSD specific changes merged
in the 1.5 tree, and after the x86 port is working. I guess you can use
the i386 jdk to bootstrap or even the amd64 linux jdk, but for the second
you'll need to write the amd64 emulation layer first :-)

christos