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Dear alpha crew: |
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After the last modification to our Gentoo/Java virtual system (bug |
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#138747) , the completely disappeared upstream support (from years ago), |
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the problems and bugs related to compaq jdk/jre ebuilds (see bugs: |
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#84306, #110611, etc) and the fact of a 1.3 vm is quite obsolete |
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nowadays, the Gentoo/Alpha port have decided to drop the support (hard |
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masking ATM) for compaq-jre,compaq-jdk. |
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This means we currently haven't got a full working java (== |
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virtual/{jre,jdk} provider) for the alpha arch. |
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Not all is lost, since other ways are open to get a valid and working |
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java environment for alpha. Kaffe and Sablevm seem to be the best |
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choices now: |
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- Kaffe: testing tinderbox [1] is running (thanks to tcort). |
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- SableVm: tcort and myself were testing it some time ago and last |
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results seems to be pretty good. Ebuilds are in the tree (just the |
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virtual machine) and in gentooexperimental[2]. |
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If someone wants to hack a bit on this issue, setting up an overlay and |
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start working on it could be the best way and we'll be pleased to know |
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the results. |
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Wkr, |
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Jose Luis Rivero [yoswink@g.o] |
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Gentoo/Doc Gentoo/Alpha |
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[1] Tinderbox |
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- http://cs.ubishops.ca/~tcort/builder/ |
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[2] SableVM-sdk |
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http://gentooexperimental.org/svn/java/gentoo-java-experimental/dev-java/sablevm-sdk/ |
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