From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 13 18:42:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD9B437BE7C for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:42:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA28680; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:42:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA72991; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:42:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:42:09 -0400 (EDT) To: Mark Abene Cc: Jim King , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JDK? In-Reply-To: <20000413204925.P8072@radicalmedia.com> References: <20000413022427.L8072@radicalmedia.com> <005301bfa53f$34eb45e0$08e48486@marble> <20000413204925.P8072@radicalmedia.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14582.30298.18441.935568@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Abene writes: > > No go. Where was this talk? I downloaded the SDK and FastVM from compaq's > site. I had to install the necessary libmach.so and libpthread*.so from Tru64 > into /compat/osf1/usr/shlib (along with the osf1 emulators port, of course). > I also had to install pdksh, and slightly edit the .java_wrapper script. > Ultimately, when trying to run java, I would simply get a "Bad system call" > error, and that was that. Apparently our osf1 kernel module doesn't (yet?) > support Tru64's pthread system calls, so we're out of luck. > > Unless somebody knows something I don't! > OSF/1's threads are done via their Mach system calls. Our osf1 ABI layer doesn't include support for Mach system calls and it probably never will, so most threads apps won't work (there are some exceptions, like Acroread, which work if you play games with the shared libs & slip the non-threaded libs in under the hood). Sorry.. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message