[gentoo-sparc] [Fwd: Fw: [gentoo-java] Java with Sun Ultra Sparc 60]

[Ferris McCormick]

Anyone interested in this topic can track the discussion at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159780 .  Comments and
information most welcome.  (Weird looking forwarding is becalse I
received it at home, forwarded it to me at work, and neglected to notice
that gentoo-sparc@g.o. was not on the distribution --- it was sparc@g.o.
instead.)

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From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
To: fmccor@g.o
Subject: Fw: [gentoo-java] Java with Sun Ultra Sparc 60
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:59:28 +0000

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Apply to Bug # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159780
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:06:02 -0800
From: David Herron <David.Herron@×××.COM>
To: Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-java@l.g.o, sparc@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Java with Sun Ultra Sparc 60


Petteri Räty wrote:
> harald kirjoitti:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> recently downloaded and installed Gentoo on my Sparc Sun machine.
>> Unfortunately i did not find any package containing java for this
>> architecture. is it possible to install any other java (source) package
>> instead? is java support planned by gentoo foundation for these types of
>> machines?
>>
>> please let me know, java support is very important for me.
>>
>>
>
> The sparc arch team does not currently support java so basically nothing
> java has sparc keywords. This is because none of the closed source vms
> work on sparc and the arch team was not interested in FOSS solutions at
> that time. They can probably shed more light on their future plans
> themselves.
>
> Regards,
> Petteri Räty

Note that we at Sun do not provide "The JDK" for SPARC+Linux.  For some 
reason the only SPARC port we provide runs on Solaris ;-) fancy that.  
After we finish open sourcing the openjdk project I imagine more
headway could be made to supporting the openjdk on other
architecture/OS combinations than we provide from Sun.  Unfortunately
that doesn't help you today.

- - David Herron




- -- 
Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel)
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Petteri Räty wrote: 
> harald kirjoitti:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > recently downloaded and installed Gentoo on my Sparc Sun machine.
> > Unfortunately i did not find any package containing java for this
> > architecture. is it possible to install any other java (source) package
> > instead? is java support planned by gentoo foundation for these types of
> > machines?
> >
> > please let me know, java support is very important for me.
> >
> >
>
> The sparc arch team does not currently support java so basically nothing
> java has sparc keywords. This is because none of the closed source vms
> work on sparc and the arch team was not interested in FOSS solutions at
> that time. They can probably shed more light on their future plans
> themselves.
>
> Regards,
> Petteri Räty

Note that we at Sun do not provide "The JDK" for SPARC+Linux.  For some
reason the only SPARC port we provide runs on Solaris ;-) fancy that.
After we finish open sourcing the openjdk project I imagine more headway
could be made to supporting the openjdk on other architecture/OS
combinations than we provide from Sun.  Unfortunately that doesn't help
you today.

- David Herron


-- 
Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)