Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:12:35 +0000 From: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Java on FreeBSD/sparc64 Message-ID: <4B4BBE73.2030601@lerwick.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <20091215073312.GA44797@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20091215073312.GA44797@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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On 15/12/2009 07:33, Greg Lewis wrote: > It's slow and I'm not particularly confident of how well it works on SMP. > But if you're feeling adventurous and have FreeBSD/sparc64 8.0 and a yen > to use Java then you might be interested in trying it out. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~glewis/openjdk7-freebsd-8.0-sparc64.tar.gz > > Note that this isn't a package, its just a tarball based on the BSD port > of OpenJDK 7. > > If you were particuarly keen you could install Mercurial with the forest > extension, hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port/ and > see if you could use it as a bootstrap to port HotSpot so it was faster. > > Sorry, I don't think I have the bandwidth to get this going on 7.x right > now. If you'd like to I can outline roughly what I did. > > There will eventually be an openjdk7 port that will make this easier. > > Greg Thank you very much, I can confirm this is working with the latest 8 stable as compiled earlier today. I had to install devel/libffi to satisfy a dependency for java executable. I unpacked the openjdk tarball into /usr/local and included the bin path into my PATH environmental variable. Simple hello world program compiles and runs... brilliant :*) java on sparc64 under freebsd, perfect Cheers Craig B
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