(I've dropped the ASF Infra Private <infrastructure-priv...@apache.org> from the cc to avoid unintentional public replies.)
In message <4b84a88e.3070...@p6m7g8.com>, "Philip M. Gollucci" writes: > > Hi harmony!, Hi! > We might be looking to start using harmony on people.apache.org > (minotaur) after we update to stable/8 since the freebsd port > java/jdk16 is having compile issues right now. > > Compile log is available here: > http://tb.apache.org/errors/8-STABLE-people/jdk-1.6.0.3p4_14.log > > If you have any insights into the above issue please reply to me > directly or on infrastruct...@. We can't really help with that. Since Harmony contributors are by definition not permitted to look at details of the non-ALv2 compatible implementations of java and looking at compile logs might expose us to such details. > Additionally, we'd be interested in knowing how well supported harmony > is on FreeBSD 8 and how well it would work with ant, anika, and > velocity [aka be able to build www.apache.org and others at minimum] I have no idea about the current status. Way back in 6.3 days I did get drlvm/classlib to build on FreeBSD but there were thread library issues (with either of the three thread library choices at the time) that prevented it from running. I don't recall clearly but I think this had to do with recursive mutexes. The details will be in the mail archives. If I get a moment, I'll set up a FreeBSD 8 system and take a look at the current state of things. > Finally, on a personal note, why is it that nobody has contributed a > freebsd harmony port? I suspect that part of the problem is that due to the history of Java on FreeBSD, many potential contributors will have looked at non-ALv2 compatible implementations which limits what they can contribute to Harmony due to the contribution policy (ACQ) restrictions. Regards, Mark.
