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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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> > 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) package |
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> > instead? is java support planned by gentoo foundation for these types 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 blackdown 1.4.2 |
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> (or something like that), but it had a security bug. If java on sparc is really |
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> important to you, then you probably need to run Solaris. Alternatively, you can |
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> convince the blackdown guys (or one of the other JRE/JDK providers) to 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 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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> Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxiate on a phallus" |
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Hoping this information is useful to you, |
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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) |