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dirtbag Guru
Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 508 Location: NC
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject: Java 1.5 for sparc?!?! please!! |
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ok, so im the first one on my block running gentoo 2006 with 2.6.17 kernel on my sparc box.
jason@spike ~ $ uname -a
Linux spike 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 #3 Thu Jul 27 21:52:28 EDT 2006 sparc64 sun4u GNU/Linux
jason@spike ~ $
now I just need java 1.5 so I can run net-im/wildfire
but everyone and their brother for java 1.5 is masked.. has anyone gotten java 1.5 jre to work on sparc yet?
if so please tell me how.
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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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No java, it's binary-only and since upstream (AKA authors, blackdown, so on) don't build a new one there's none. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
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dirtbag Guru
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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@$#%@^@$!!
thanks for the info Flexo!
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ThorstenHirsch Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 111
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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They don't build one anymore?
...so they all believe, that Sun will really open Java in the near future?
Well...let's hope so. _________________ alias bauerbob |
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Weeve Retired Dev
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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Sun never made a Java VM for Linux on SPARCs as far as I'm aware. Blackdown's is now too far out of date to be of any use if you want anything resembling current toolchain. |
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dirtbag Guru
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: so what DOES work? |
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so whats the most up2date jre that I could possibly run on the sparc linux platform?
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Weeve Retired Dev
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Blackdown has a Java 1.4.1, but if you are running a 2006.0 profile, it won't work at all (toolchain causes issues and it is masked). Blackdown also very crash-happy if you run it on an SMP system. It's currently only supported in the 2005.x profiles, which will be deprecated when 2006.1 is released (which is "when its done" but probably soon-ish). |
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ThorstenHirsch Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Sun never made a JRE for Linux/Sparc because of their product strategy - they want you to install Solaris on a Sparc. But I guess that the blackdown guys or the sable vm guys or whoever will be glad to do so when Sun is opening the sources. _________________ alias bauerbob |
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