On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 22:04 +0100, harald wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
> 
> thank´s for your very quick answer. 
> i don´t know exactly what exactly gentoo foundation and its developers
> do. there are a several java sources available for sparc plattform. sun
> has binaries for solaris. is it possible to install/transform these
> binaries for gentoo? there are a lot of sources available from sun.
> would it be possible to install/compile these sources on my machine?
> would it be possible for gentoo to generate emerge packages with these
> sources?

Don't know.  What you should do is open a bug against sparc requesting
that the sources you are interested be wrapped in an ebuild which would
support a version of java which would be acceptable to you.  If you
generate a bug like that, someone --- maybe me --- would at least look
at it.

> I knew about blackdown java for sparc, these are unstable and do not
> support all official sun java features.

Don't pursue blackdown; sun's product seems to be superior.


Regards,
Ferris

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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)