Re: GCJ on RedHat 6.x

2001-03-21 Thread Barnet Wagman
As I recall, the version in those RPMs is very out of date and does not work.  (See the GCJ faq). If you want to try GCJ today, youll need to get the CVS tree or a recent snapshot.  See  http://gcc.gnu.org/java/index.html I don't know what kind of state GCJ is at the moment; but I'm fairly sure i

jdk1.3 support for sparc/linux

2001-03-21 Thread Michael . Chan
is there currently a release plan or schedule for a jdk1.3 port? I'm willing to offer my time and hardware resources to help with this project... mike snotty e/c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

GCJ on RedHat 6.x

2001-03-21 Thread jmsalvo
I am running RedHat 6.0 ... but with a lot of things upgraded, such as ( but not limited to ): kernel 2.2.18, using reiserfs glibc-2.1.3 ( required by Blackdown's JDK 1.2.2 / 1.3 ) There are others, but these are the ones relevant for java on linux. Now I want to try out GCJ. I have downloaded

Patches for compiling 1.3?

2001-03-21 Thread Barnet Wagman
I'd like to compile the jre (to optimize for my processor, an AMD Athlon K7) and could use a little guidance. The Blackdown faq points to compiling instructions for 1.2.2 RC3. Are these still correct, for 1.3? These instructions say that it is necessary to apply Blackdown's patches in order to

Re: readInt() & byte order

2001-03-21 Thread Ashish
yep i forgot to mention the paltforms for C -Ashish - Original Message - From: "Matthias Pfisterer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ashish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Joaquin Rapela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 5:13 PM Subject: Re: readInt() & byte or

Typing International Text

2001-03-21 Thread Michael Grinder
Does anyone know the secret to typing non-Latin-1 text into a Java program on Linux? I've tried everything I can think of, but so far Java programs stubbornly refuse to accept anything but Latin-1 characters from the keyboard. Here's my setup: Debian GNU/Linux (potato with some packages from uns

Re: readInt() & byte order

2001-03-21 Thread Matthias Pfisterer
Ashish wrote: > > Answer is simple > > Java program expects file bytes in big-endian format, while C uses little > endian Sorry, wrong. C uses the native byte order of the system. I.e. it depends on the processor. x86 (Intel, AMD) => little endian PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc => big endian Matthias

Re: readInt() & byte order

2001-03-21 Thread Ashish
Answer is simple Java program expects file bytes in big-endian format, while C uses little endian 2175 = > 1000 0111 so java will interpret after assuming it's big endian will be 0111 1000 => 32520 -Ashish - Original Message - From: "Joaquin Rapela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

readInt() & byte order

2001-03-21 Thread Joaquin Rapela
Hello, I have a binary file containing short integers. I wrote a C program to read the file and it works as expected. I wrote a java program to read the file using a DataInputStream and its readInt() method and it is reading the short integers in inverted order Instead of a 2175 (1111) I

Re: Java & Multithread

2001-03-21 Thread Peter Schuller
> If I don't call Java all is ok. If I call Java (my simple "Hello Word" > Java class) the application exits with "segmentation fault" after some > seconds of splatting. I'm sure someone who knows more will respond; but could it be a signaling handling conflict? I don't know about pthreads specif

Re: Regarding JMF and capturing

2001-03-21 Thread Viktor Sigurd Wold Eide
"Peter Schuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A beta version is already out. 2.1.1 beta 2 is the one I downloaded. > > >ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/JMF/2.1.1/i386/beta2/jmf-2.1.1-beta2-linux-i386.tar.bz2 > > (or choose an appropriate mirror site on blackdo

Re: Regarding JMF and capturing

2001-03-21 Thread Peter Schuller
> Yes, it's a Linux specific problem. It will get better to some extent > with the next JMF-2.1.1 release which has its own JavaSound > implementation. Great! And once again, a big thanks for the work you guys are doing for Java on Linux. > The JMF Programmer's Guide has an "Writing Captured Au

Java & Multithread

2001-03-21 Thread Valerio Ferrucci
Hi, I'm building a C application (MultiThreaded) using Java Invocation API to call Java from C. I use pthread_create to launch a thread and pthread_mutexlock and pthread_mutexunlock to syncronize them and link my app with "native threads". Then I splat my application launching multiple threads con

Re: Regarding JMF and capturing

2001-03-21 Thread Peter Schuller
> Now that JMF-2.1.1 is out, do you have any information on when a Linux > version will be available? A beta version is already out. 2.1.1 beta 2 is the one I downloaded. ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/JMF/2.1.1/i386/beta2/jmf-2.1.1-beta2-linux-i386.tar.bz2 (o