On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:20:39PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:00:15AM -0800, Scott Merritt wrote: > > > I'd prefer to run JDK 1.4 ... Is the best advice to wait around until > > something becomes more solid, or is there something out there that I > > should be looking at? Is using the Linux compatibility the way to go > > and just get the JDK from Sun directly? Doesn't this require I use some > > patches or something? > > jdk-1.4.2 is available, and it is the best version of Java available, > certainly on FreeBSD/i386. However, there's the rub: it only works on > i386 architecture - same deal I think for any of the available JDKs, > except linux-blackdown-jdk13:
Work is underway to port jdk1.3 to FreeBSD/sparc64 (porting it is apparently much easier than 1.4), but it's not available yet. If you need something immediately then you should either stick with Solaris for now, or use an i386 machine. > linux-blackdown-jdk13/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= arm i386 ppc sparc That one's bizarre, we don't support arm, ppc or "sparc" (only sparc64). Kris
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