Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 23:07:07 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Java porting project questions Message-ID: <20040707200707.GA12989@phantom.cris.net> In-Reply-To: <20040707173804.GA16694@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <200407072254.09497.tsmm@list.ru> <20040707173804.GA16694@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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hi, On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:38:04AM -0600, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:54:09PM +0700, Mikhail TSaplin wrote: > > I have some questions about this freebsd port. > > 1)Why we need linux jdk, when building a native distr? > > Is that necesarily to build compiler with classes semultaneusly? > > Just like gcc needs a C compiler to bootstrap itself, javac needs another > java compiler to bootstrap itself (as its written in Java). So far, we > have used the Linux version to bootstrap unless an existing native version > is available. It may be possible to use Jikes, but there would need to be > some patches to the build to achieve this. This may become necessary for > the 5.0 (aka 1.5) port as the Linux version doesn't currently run under > emulation. It always was possible to use previous release of jdk to bootstrap next one. As my expirement shown-- it's possible to use jdk 1.4.2 to bootstrap of jdk 1.5.0. So, it should not be a problem.
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