PowerPC build ???

2010-11-24 Thread kevin diggs
Hi, Is there any way to build this thing on a Linux PowerPC box (YDL 4.0 & 6.0). Is there a snowballs's chance in some place hot that GCC gcj will work? I admit that I have not done an extensive search for a PowerPC Linux jdk (May actually be one on one of the install CDs but I doubt it). Maybe o

Fwd: Binary plugs download

2010-11-24 Thread kevin diggs
The section of the page: http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk7/ for downloading has a heading that says: Linux platform If this is for x86 only then please label it as such (more than having i586 buried in the file/link name). Linux actually runs on quite a lot of different hardware (I got me

Fwd: dead link

2010-11-24 Thread kevin diggs
Hi, The FAQ link at the bottom of page: http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk7/ is dead??? kevin

Re: PowerPC build ???

2010-11-24 Thread kevin diggs
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > Kevin, > > These blogs might help explain things: >   http://blogs.sun.com/kto/entry/anatomy_of_the_jdk_build >   http://blogs.sun.com/jjg/entry/building_javac_for_jdk7 > Thanks for the links. I'll look at these later. If they answer the foll