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On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 12:51 +0200, Javier Barrio wrote: |
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> > If Java becomes a viable option again, an update will be posted. |
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> What about using dev-java/kaffe? |
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Javier, |
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On my systems, building kaffe today results in this failure: |
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touch compile-classes |
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if test "" != ""; then -r -D glibj.zip gnu java javax org META-INF |
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> /dev/null; fi |
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if test "/usr/bin/jar" != ""; then /usr/bin/jar cf glibj.zip gnu java |
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javax org META-INF; fi |
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basename: missing operand |
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Try `basename --help' for more information. |
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Home for VM '' does not exist: |
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To be fair, I suspect this is a side-effect of the fact that a while ago |
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I was playing with various javas on sparc to see if there was one which |
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could handle one specific application (netlogo). There was not. But I |
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left my system in an unknown state from a java perspective. |
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That said, at that time kaffe could be built, and it worked sort of. It |
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probably could be made to work if you or someone wished to work on it. |
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Another candidate is sablevm. It builds fine and seems to work (now, I |
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built it by hand; not with the ebuild because the portage versions are |
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out of date among other things. The problem I had with it is that is |
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missing some features and the java version it corresponds to |
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sun-jdk-1.3, and my application needs -1.4.?, or, better, -1.5. sablevm |
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could possibly be made to work as Java on sparc, but it would require |
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some effort (the product itself seems solid, but it to an older version |
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of java. Now, I was playing with -1.12, and current is -1.13. I might |
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play with it again myself, in fact. NOTE, however, that the portage |
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version is 17 or 18 months out of date, so if you want to play with |
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sablevm right now, it's do it yourself.) See http://sablvem.org for |
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details. |
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Note further that I am not a java user. I need one application which |
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requires a java machine. If frustrated sparc java users would like to |
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evaluate sablevm as a feasible java for gentoo sparc, I think that would |
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be useful to us. |
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Hope this helps; |
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Regards, |
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Ferris |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) |
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