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On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 14:25 +0100, Alex Buell wrote: |
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> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:41:59 +1000, I waved a wand and this message |
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> magically appears in front of Jim Watson: |
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> > It is also needed to find if a problem is sparc related - test on |
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> > different platforms. I can help you with that. |
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> > There are currently not any bugs upstream that are specific to sparc. |
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> > I am not a gentoo user, but doing the upstream OOo port for sparc |
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> Right, I've tried unmasking the OOO ebuild on sparc and building it - |
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> it stopped with an error probably ~50% though. I can try this again and |
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> file bug reports if that's necessary? |
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> As for there being a lack of a Java VM on sparc, if anyone's working on |
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> porting Sun's JVM, I can help with testing the builds. |
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Supposedly, this is very hard to hopeless (according to sun). There are |
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more promising alternatives, such as jamvm or perhaps cacao. I have |
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played a bit with jamvm, and I think it could be made to work. It's |
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mostly a matter of figuring out what order the arguments to a couple |
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macros which are used for test-and-swap are given, and making a few |
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memcopy macros work right. I've had it running; just not quite |
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correctly. |
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jamvm (or something like it) would make a very nice project. Sun java |
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would probably not (I think sun have it on their to-do list, but |
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considered long-term and difficult). |
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If you want to be an AT, please set it up with jmbsvicetto or with me; |
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it's mostly a matter of getting you through the ebuild quiz. |
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> Alex |
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> http://www.munted.org.uk |
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> Fearsome grindings. |
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Regards, |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) |
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