Re: J2sdk 1.4.2

ben -
thanks for the fast reply.  like you, i no longer have access to 
solaris disks.   i was hoping to play with jboss on my test machine 
but it looks as if i'm getting in over my head.

i'll keep you posted if anything turns up.
tnx.
m


At 07:59 AM 10/3/2006, you wrote:
>I asked this same question a while back and never did figure it out. 
>Because you can't build the jdk from source, you have to rely on one 
>of the binary distriubtions from sun. For a SPARC box, this means 
>trying to get the Solaris jdk binary to run on Aurora.
>
>There is a kernel module, solaris.ko that you can modprobe/insmod 
>that supposedly will give you solaris binary compatibility and will 
>allow you to run solaris binaries on SPARC linux. You next have to 
>build a mini-solaris system beneath /usr/gnemul/solaris with ./lib 
>directories containing all the requistite libraries from a real-live 
>solaris installation.
>
>This is where I got stopped; I don't have any solaris left anywhere, 
>and I don't know anybody who can give me a shell on a solaris box 
>for the purpose of tar.gzing those libraries off and sending them to 
>my Aurora box.
>
>Google searches to try: gnemul, solaris binary compatibility
>
>You can also try the Apache Harmony project, which supposedly has 
>built an open source java run time that is capable of driving 
>tomcat. I couldn't get this to build (no SPARC binary release from 
>Harmony, either).
>
>Good luck! I'd be interested in knowing how far you get.
>>I am trying to install JBOSS portal on my aurora 2.0 setup.  In order to
>>proceed, one of the requirements is j2sdk 1.4.2.
>>
>>I have looked in the usual /usr and /usr/local for java and it appears
>>not to be installed.   I looked on my 4 aurora cds' to see if I could
>>find the needed program but could only find java-1.4.2-gcj-compat
>>.....rpm - maybe I'm not sure what program name I'm looking for.
>>
>>I went to www.javasun.com  but couldn't locate a version that would
>>install on aurora 2.0 - the self extracting fails and the other requires
>>pkgadd.
>>
>>Any advice would be greatly appreciated - there must be a way to run
>>java applications on aurora.  How have others installed java?
>>
>>Tia.
>>M
>>
>>
>>Mark E. Einstein
>>Sr. Statistical Associate
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>>
>>Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College
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