Subject: Re: Java Virtual Machine on NetBSD/Sparc (1.4.2)
To: Tim Walls <tim@snowgoons.fsnet.co.uk>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/04/2001 09:55:58
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Tim Walls wrote:

: Does anyone have a recommendation for a JVM which works on
: Sparc/1.4.2?  I have tried practically everything in pkgsrc and can't
: get anything to work properly.  Kaffe, for example, just coredumps as
: soon as you run it.

If you don't mind restricting yourself to JDK 1.1.x, there's a *native* port
of 1.1.8 in pkgsrc/jang/jdk.  There's no native 1.2/1.3 port *yet* due to
licensing issues, but that is being worked on.

The 1.2.2 Sun release for Solaris should work under compat_svr4 emulation.

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