Thank you for the reply. I'm confused about the the kaffe.deb package that I installed. It didn't install anything called (for example) kaffe-vm or even kaffe in my /usr/bin directory...I'm sure I missed something, but I'm not sure what...
Russell ____________________________________________________ Without sharing, there would be no Internet Without the Internet, there would be no sharing Share your code, share your source -- Let's build something as great as the Internet! ---------- >From: "Edouard G. Parmelan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: kaffe only for i386? >Date: Tue, Jun 12, 2001, 1:49 > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:16:39PM +0000, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > >> I used to work for Transvirtual, the firm responsibly for kaffe. I >> personally, several times, asedk them about PowerPC support. They >> seemed interested, but whenever I tried mentioning we should get some Macs >> for development, they lost interest. > > I'm a core team member of Kaffe (kaffe.org). > > Even if Transvirtual had released there Custom Edition to open source > last summer (tvt-kaffe), Open Edition (kaffe.org) is not dead and > Debian use it. Merge process of these two releases is not yet > started. Last time I announce that I have start this process, TVT ask > me to delay this task as Peter is rewriting AWT subsystem (the first > part I want to merge). For now, tvt-kaffe have improvements but > org-kaffe have too, as iconv(), Alpha JIT for OSF/1 (expect GNU/Linux > Alpha soon), PowerPC, Irix 6.4 (interpreter only), BigDecimal... > > Tim and I expect a merge of tvt and org but it seems to me that TVT > are focused on PocketLinux :-( > > Missing Kaffe for Debian PowerPC is more or less a Debian maintainer > attidute as kaffe-1.0.6 work on PowerPC with libffi. And last summer, > one day after release, Kevin B. Hendricks submited a native PowerPC > version of syscallMethod to get ride of libffi. Since then, Kaffe > works on GNU/Linux PowerPC. > > > BTW, did you see my mail on this list about instaling Mac OS X, > GNU/Linux and NetBSD on same iBook ? Yes, I will switch from Intel to > PowerPC, with writing PowerPC JIT in mind :-) > > tvt-kaffe vs org-kaffe is more or less like FreeBSD vs NetBSD :-) > -- > Edouard G. Parmelan > http://egp.free.fr > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
