On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:10:42 +0200
Krzysiek Pawlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joshua Nichols wrote:
> > Doesn't support:
> > alpha
> Alpha has compaq-{jdk,jre} which requires nast hacks with glibc and
> doesn't work - details are in virtual/{jdk,jre} bugs.
compaq-{jdk,jre} were masked by YosWinK on July 7th. The latest version
was 1.3, upstream is dead, the packages are binary only, and they were
compiled against an older version of glibc. LD_PRELOAD Hacks Bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/84306
The alpha team is actively seeking a replacement. So far SableVM and
kaffe look the most promising. SableVM's sdk (not in the tree yet)
works for basic things, but doesn't compile ant-core because it is
missing tools.jar. kaffe doesn't pass all of the tests for 'make check'
but improvements are being made. kaffe also has a JIT for alpha, but it
is currently broken. We'll continue to work on the issue, but right now
Gentoo/alpha doesn't support Java.
-Thomas
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