Re: Java on linux Sparc, is there a light at the end of the tunnel ?

[email protected] wrote:
> I'm trying to run the only 1.4 jdk released for the linux sparc arch.
> Unfortunately, the only version available for sparc is the 1.4.1 which
> began to broke around the availability of the glibc 2.3.6.
> 
> Now, some bug have been filed against this but noone ever responded to
> it. 
> The symptom is a sigsegv in the jvm at certain condition.
> 
> So for now, this jvm is broken - is there a workaround ? - .
> 
> I would like have some 1.4 running (or even 1.5, let's be fun).
> 
> I had a look at the sources and I was able to build them on my x86
> machine.
> 
> The port seems to be possible. I even think that the blackdown java team
> has already done it.

Yes and it's mostly working.  But there is still a known bug which I must
fix before releasing it.


	Juergen

-- 
Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://blog.blackdown.de/


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