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You might try using gcj as the jdk. That has worked on ppc for many java |
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packages as well as on amd64. I could not run eclipse with any of the other |
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jvm's. There is a thread in the gentoo forums, topic 379693. |
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On Tuesday 02 January 2007 15:25, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> harald kirjoitti: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > |
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> > recently downloaded and installed Gentoo on my Sparc Sun machine. |
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> > Unfortunately i did not find any package containing java for this |
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> > architecture. is it possible to install any other java (source) package |
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> > instead? is java support planned by gentoo foundation for these types of |
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> > machines? |
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> > |
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> > please let me know, java support is very important for me. |
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> The sparc arch team does not currently support java so basically nothing |
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> java has sparc keywords. This is because none of the closed source vms |
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> work on sparc and the arch team was not interested in FOSS solutions at |
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> that time. They can probably shed more light on their future plans |
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> themselves. |
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> Regards, |
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> Petteri Räty |
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