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Ferris probably answered your question, but i looked back and found this |
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sent to this list on sept. 5 |
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Hi All, |
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As of today, the 2005.1 profiles for sparc32 and sparc64 have been |
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deprecated. The major change this will cause is that Java is no longer |
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supported. Basically the SPARC port for the one Java solution that was |
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available (blackdown) has the following issues: |
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* Outstanding security issues |
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* Very unstable performance, particularly on SMP systems |
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* Version of glibc it needed was holding the toolchain back. |
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If Java becomes a viable option again, an update will be posted. |
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Cheers, |
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- -- Jason Wever |
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Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead |
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On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:09:50 -0600, Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o> |
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> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 14:32 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>> harald wrote: |
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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) |
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>> package |
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>> > instead? is java support planned by gentoo foundation for these types |
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>> of |
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>> > machines? |
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>> The foundation has very little to do with development. |
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>> > please let me know, java support is very important for me. |
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>> Last I heard, the last version of java that worked on sparc was |
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>> blackdown 1.4.2 |
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>> (or something like that), but it had a security bug. If java on sparc |
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>> is really |
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>> important to you, then you probably need to run Solaris. Alternatively, |
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>> you can |
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>> convince the blackdown guys (or one of the other JRE/JDK providers) to |
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>> do |
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>> another sparc release. |
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> Rumor has it that sun is opening the source to their JRE/JDK, although I |
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> can't confirm nor do I know quite what that actually means. If true, |
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> though, a user on IRC has expressed a strong interest in working on it, |
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> and if all that happens, I am sure we would support the effort. |
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> Unfornately I don't recall off hand who that was. You might /join |
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> #genoo-sparc (on freenode) and ask who the user is and make contact with |
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> him. |
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> There are one or two java source packages in portage which do build and |
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> run. But if "java support is very important for [you]," you would |
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> almost certainly find them to be deficient. |
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>> -- |
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>> Andrew Gaffney |
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>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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>> Gentoo Linux Developer Installer |
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>> Project |
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>> Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxiate on a |
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>> phallus" |
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> Hoping this information is useful to you, |
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> Regards, |
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