> Yes most of them were already upstream. I was mantaining them in both places
> so
> I could see how the bsd-port changes diverged from the linux code base as the
> beta
> moved along. The bsd-port tree is still separate from the main jdk codebase,
> although
> it looks like jdk8 will have bsd support integrated in if all goes well.
I do hope it goes in the main jdk src tree and BSDs have less hassle
going forward.
>> Build fails unless the drops dir is set to
>>
>> -ALT_DROPS_DIR=${DISTDIR} \
>> +ALT_DROPS_DIR=${DISTDIR}/jdk \
>>
>> in the Makefile
>
> Thanks for catching that. I have attached a fixed tarball for others to test
> with.
>
It builds and runs just fine on amd64.
a question: Sun developed java on Sparc, why is it not supported for
our Sparc/Sparc64 architectures? Has anybody tried building jdk since
the switch to gcc4?
thanks
