Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:42:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com> Cc: Jim King <king@sstar.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JDK? Message-ID: <14582.30298.18441.935568@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000413204925.P8072@radicalmedia.com> References: <20000413022427.L8072@radicalmedia.com> <005301bfa53f$34eb45e0$08e48486@marble> <20000413204925.P8072@radicalmedia.com>
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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
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