On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 07.12.2009 14:36, Onkar Shinde wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> java3d currently fails to build on hppa because it uses some sun >> specific APIs and default-jdk is GCJ on hppa. A solution for this >> could be to use openjdk-6-jdk build-dep instead of default-jdk. But >> the problem is that there are no openjdk-* packages on hppa. >> >> Does anyone know if there is any effort going on to make openjdk-* >> packages available on hppa. If not then I will have to make java3d a >> !hppa package. > > openjdk builds on hppa, but doesn't run (yet). Andrew Haley once debugged it > and found out at least one things which would need to be fixed: the > assumption in the C++ interpreter that the stack always grows downwards, and > not upwards as on hppa. > > please could one of the hotspot developers sched some light on this, how > easy this might to be fix, and if there are other assumptions?
[hijacking thread] Switching to openjdk would also work around the following issue: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40816 This means that VTK 5.4 will NOT FTBS on hppa once switched to openjdk :) Thanks ! -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
