From owner-freebsd-java Tue Mar 21 16:22:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from fdy2.demon.co.uk (fdy2.demon.co.uk [194.222.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E0E37BDA5 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:21:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk) Received: (from rjs@localhost) by fdy2.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA00583; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:09:41 GMT (envelope-from rjs) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:09:41 GMT Message-Id: <200003220009.AAA00583@fdy2.demon.co.uk> From: Robert Swindells To: glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <200003212338.KAA04014@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Greg Lewis on Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:08:18 +1030 (CST)) Subject: Re: Pre-alpha JDK 1.2.2 patches -- issues Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >5. Sun JIT compiler. > It appears that the Sun JIT compiler (libsunwjit.so) is supplied as a > precompiled Solaris x86 binary without source code. This leaves us > rather hamstrung in getting this to work. I can only assume that the > Blackdown folk got access to the source code from Sun. It does, however, > mean that one gets a lot of annoying messages about it not being > able to be loaded. Whats needed here, for the moment, is for someone > to look into preventing this attempt to load it as the default JIT (to > avoid those annoying messages :). Do you think it is worth spending time trying to get libsunwjit to work instead of porting HotSpot ? Robert Swindells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message