On Sun, 04 Feb 2001, Todd Vierling wrote:
> 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.

I spotted that JDK, but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work; c.f

  > pwd
  /usr/pkgsrc/lang/jdk
  > make
  ===> jdk-1.1.8 is not available for NetBSD-1.4.2-sparc              

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

I shall have a go at that - thanks to everyone for the assistance!

Cheers,
Tim.

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