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On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:10:42 +0200 |
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Krzysiek Pawlik <nelchael@g.o> wrote: |
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> Joshua Nichols wrote: |
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> > Doesn't support: |
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> > alpha |
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> Alpha has compaq-{jdk,jre} which requires nast hacks with glibc and |
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> doesn't work - details are in virtual/{jdk,jre} bugs. |
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compaq-{jdk,jre} were masked by YosWinK on July 7th. The latest version |
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was 1.3, upstream is dead, the packages are binary only, and they were |
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compiled against an older version of glibc. LD_PRELOAD Hacks Bug: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/84306 |
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The alpha team is actively seeking a replacement. So far SableVM and |
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kaffe look the most promising. SableVM's sdk (not in the tree yet) |
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works for basic things, but doesn't compile ant-core because it is |
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missing tools.jar. kaffe doesn't pass all of the tests for 'make check' |
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but improvements are being made. kaffe also has a JIT for alpha, but it |
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is currently broken. We'll continue to work on the issue, but right now |
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Gentoo/alpha doesn't support Java. |
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-Thomas |
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