Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:48:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> To: gwh@spiders.com Cc: ports Subject: Re: JDK-1.0.2? Message-ID: <199609030548.WAA06639@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> Is any work still being done to port the latest JDK to > FreeBSD? There is a partial port of JDK-1.0 from back in February in And that was the last time I had any time to work on it. It probably works for graphical applets if I could just relink it or something simple like that, but now I'd want to start over again with 1.0.2. I have a one-half block of semi-free time coming up which I can use to do either a 1.0.2 port or to debug lingering Lite2 problems. There are other considerations like the fact that JDK 1.1 is due out between September (now) and December of this year and will represent the biggest change since the HotJava Alpha to JDK beta transition and that we are still lacking supporting work on the base operating system for things like weak symbols and threads. As the JDK 1.0 port shows, a port can be done without these, but it's hard. Of course, the source is available from Sun and the hardest part, bootstrapping the bits which are written in Java, is already taken care of for you since you can use the JDK 1.0 binaries, so I would encourage anyone with the inclination and lots of knowledge of threads, bootstrapping compilers, dynamic linking, and Java to do a port and help out all the folks asking for a port.
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