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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:42:55 -0700
From:      Bill Huey (Hui) <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
To:        Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
Cc:        freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 1.3.1 patchset 7
Message-ID:  <20020725214255.GA2411@gnuppy.monkey.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020726035044.A10113@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
References:  <20020726035044.A10113@misty.eyesbeyond.com>

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On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:50:44AM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Patchset 7 for JDK 1.3.1 is up on the web site.  The main highlights are:

Whoo hoo !!!

> 3. The HotSpot VM has reached alpha status.

A lot of clean up still needs to be done with it, but the HotSpot interpreter
works pretty much flawlessly so far and runs best under -current. Me or
somebody will have to figure out why it's so slow with the built compilers
in the future.
 
> The requirements and method for building HotSpot is not yet documented
> and the update to the FreeBSD port doesn't feature support for building
> HotSpot as yet.  This is currently for the adventurous who understand
> what they are doing.

You basically need gcc31 and build one of the 6 compiler. It's not too
hard to figure out.

bill


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