Re: Java3D vs. tya

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Byrne
at Bboard.main(Compiled Code) Does it work in your environment w/o tya? Steve -- ---- Steve B

Re: JDK 1.2 Library Issues

1999-06-30 Thread Steve Byrne
hat didn't make some of the files world-readable. If untar install as yourself and run as yourself, no biggie, but many people apparently don't do this, so cd to the main jdk directory and do: chmod -R a+r . Steve -- ---

Re: Max heap environment variable?

1999-06-30 Thread Steve Byrne
ment variable > that I could just set to be 64M or perhaps even more, in > order to alleviate the out of memory problems. Thanks to your question, we're looking at adding an environment variable for just such a purpose into the next rev of Linux Java. Steve -- ------

Re: Linux on Redhat 6.0

1999-06-30 Thread Steve Byrne
ibc2.1 pre v2 version. > - I tried it with having just rt.jar in the classpath > - I tried it with NO classpath (as that should work) > - I reinstalled the files from the tar file > -- -------- Steve Byrne

Re: undefined symbol

1999-06-29 Thread Steve Byrne
this problem. Try that and see if it fixes things (I know -- it's suboptimal). Steve -- ---- Steve Byrne | Try Linux: Th

Re: What's so platform dependent with Java2 source?

1999-06-27 Thread Steve Byrne
. You've hit the high order bits. Linux threads are not Solaris threads, and the implementation naturally assumes that Solaris threads are available. The Solaris equivalent of pthread_cond_wait will return if an interrupt occurs; Linux pthreads won't, so all kinds of kludgery has to go on to

Re: Install Java

1999-06-27 Thread Steve Byrne
incerely, > John Minstein > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- --

Re: JDK 1.2 for Linux on Sparc

1999-06-27 Thread Steve Byrne
getting better all the time, and may be releasable soon. Steve -- -------- Steve Byrne

Re: sunwjit slows down JDK

1999-06-08 Thread Steve Byrne
, I'd try to make it so that if you weren't using any of the 2D features, the overhead that you'd pay would be minimal, and only when you started turning on matrix transformation or any of the other cool 2D effects would you have to take a performance hit. Steve --

Re: RedHat 6, JDK 1.2. native threads & JNI

1999-06-05 Thread Steve Byrne
libc libraries ? I had similar Well, that and the glibc 2.1 Motif libraries. "Just a recompile" I doubt that many of you have any concept of what "just a recompile" means when building JDK 1.2 -- it's a 2 hour process these days on reasonably fast hardware. -- ---

Re: jdk1.2pre-v2

1999-06-03 Thread Steve Byrne
that. Thanks for telling me about it. Steve -- -------- Steve Byrne | Try Linux: The Soul of a GNU Machin

Re: jdk1.2pre-v2

1999-06-03 Thread Steve Byrne
to 2.1 > yet at work, that's not an issue yet. btw, good job SBB, et. al. We're trying to get the 2.1 build done tonight. Stay tuned... Steve -- -------- Steve Byrne |

Re: jdk1.2pre-v2

1999-06-03 Thread Steve Byrne
Justin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm surprised no one's mentioned it yet ( maybe I missed it ), but > pre-v2 > is on the mirrors in case anyone's interested. I didn't get a chance to :-) Steve -- ------

Re: JMF Port Status for linux??

1999-06-03 Thread Steve Byrne
and bug fixing. The code is mostly C/C++ algorithmic code, with a limited dependence on the C/C++ runtime library, and so it should be quite portable. Steve -- ---- Steve Byrne | Try Linux: Th

documenting all the Blackdown environment variables

1999-05-28 Thread Steve Byrne
Nelson Minar writes: > I'd like to make a list of all the environment variables the Blackdown > JDK uses to change its operation. I don't think there is a > comprehensive list anywhere. Here's what I know, can others correct > this or add to the list? Maybe we can get it into README.linux on t

...

1999-05-26 Thread Steve Byrne
Riyad Kalla writes: [I wish you'd use real subject lines!] > Is the JCK status page accurate? Or when the next release is issued, is > all of x86 going to be green? The next pre-release will be out soon. We don't have to have all of the boxes green to do pre-releases, but we do have to have

Java 2 for Linux

1999-05-23 Thread Steve Byrne
Sandy Ward writes: > Does anyone have the dates when Java 2 for Linux might be released from Sun? I should be clear: SUN doesn't do ports of Java 2 to Linux. The Blackdown porting team does (see http://java.blackdown.org). I'm trying to get pre-release 2 put together as we've made HUGE advance

Java 2 for Linux

1999-05-23 Thread Steve Byrne
Sandy Ward writes: > Does anyone have the dates when Java 2 for Linux might be released from Sun? Uh...never, since they aren't doing it. > Sandy > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of

Java 3D available soon!

1999-05-12 Thread Steve Byrne
I've uploaded a pre-release version of Java 3D for Java 2 to Blackdown; it should reach the mirror sites over the next day or two. You'll need to have Mesa 3 installed to be able to run it. Since Java 3D is a standard extension, you can just untar the file directly into the same location whic

Re: Ability to reload class files

1999-05-10 Thread Steve Byrne
Ken McNeil writes: > > What I would like to know is this: how difficult > > would it be to reload the > > definition of a class if objects of the class had > > already been > > instantiated, then destroyed and garbage-collected? > > > java.lang.ClassLoader caches Class objects so that >

Re: glibc 2.1 binary

1999-05-04 Thread Steve Byrne
Scott Murray writes: > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Tom McMichael wrote: > > [snip!] > > > Good point Paul ... checked out jitter bug and according to the "DONE" > > section the two choices for glibc 2.1 are: > > 1) jdk 1.2 > > 2) pre-pre-release of jdk117_v2 available at ... > > > > http://

HotSpot

1999-05-03 Thread Steve Byrne
Matt Lord writes: > Do you plan on porting HotSpot if and when Sun releases the source code? If Sun will license us the code, we'll port it. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Seeking source for Linux JDK 1.2 port

1999-05-03 Thread Steve Byrne
Eric House writes: > Hi: > > The blackdown.org web site used to suggest that the patches necessary > to build the JDK on Linux were available. Are they still? Where? Where does it say that? That's certainly not the case currently. We plan to make the diffs available with the NEXT release

Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background.

1999-05-02 Thread Steve Byrne
Al writes: > > I get this warning when I execute my program. The program works fine. > How do I get ride of the warning? > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background. Don't run Netscape, or run it afterwards, or run it with the command line parameter that says to lim

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-22 Thread Steve Byrne
Dustin Lang writes: > > Hi, > > > Can someone help me clarify the following: > > > > Java is Big-Endian, correct? > > Intel Linux is Little-Endian, correct? > > Corrrect me if I'm wrong, but here's my understanding of the endianness: > 1. the java classes (such as DataInputStream) do

hotjava/jdk1.2?

1999-03-31 Thread Steve Byrne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does anyone know if the Sun hotjava browser is supposed to work > under JDK1.2? I've had no luck to date -- failing on startup with > AccessControlException. Wondering whether to suspect hotjava, 1.2, > or the Linux port. HotJava needs a permissions file. It's rep

Re: go back to gzip!

1999-03-30 Thread Steve Byrne
Nelson Minar writes: > >Nobody has bzip2, whatever that is. You're making your product less portable. Perhaps, the author intended to say "nobody with no clue has bzip2 or knows what it is". Indeed this is a valid point, albeit delivered in a slightly suboptimal way. If you are releasing pre-

Re: JDK 1.2 Pb with S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 (i386) - Kernel 2.0.35

1999-03-30 Thread Steve Byrne
Lars Rusdorf writes: > Hi, > > - download a libc5-version of jdk 1.2 (is there one ?) There won't be one. We'll have to support glibc 2.0 and glibc 2.1; libc5 is not something that we will have time to deal with. Steve --

Java 3D

1999-03-27 Thread Steve Byrne
sven goethel writes: > Dear Java-Linux-Team, > > whats about the Java3D status ? > > Are there allready people on the run - to implement it ? It's gated by Blackdown team member's time (mostly mine). > Are theire the sources from sun avaiable ? Not under SCSL. > Can i participate ? I

Still having problems with swing

1999-03-22 Thread Steve Byrne
Knut-HÃ¥vard Aksnes writes: > I am running Rawhide using glibc-2.1 and tries to use the swing > classes. :-( Glibc-2.1 is known to have show-stopper problems with 1.2 -- we will be producing a separate version of the binary to run with glibc-2.1 Steve -

2.0.37ac9?

1999-03-18 Thread Steve Byrne
Dan Creswell writes: > Just wondering - the status page says the multicast sockets issues are > fixed in 2.0.37ac9 - the latest patch I can see over @ Alan's site is > ac8 - is there a later patch or is it a typo? Not a typo -- Alan sent me a patch that fixes the problem that he said would go

Downloading JDK

1999-03-18 Thread Steve Byrne
Steven Rubenstein writes: > What am I doing wrong? Perhaps not providing enough information for anyone to determine the answer to your question? :-) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "

Re: anyone got jar working with jdk1.2???

1999-03-17 Thread Steve Byrne
Peter T Mount writes: > On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > hello, > > > > > > am i the only one to have problems with the jar prog of the jdk1.2-prev1 > > > version??? > > > > > > each time i try to packege something i get the message: Can't determine > > > applicatio

Java3D for Linux?

1999-03-17 Thread Steve Byrne
Gord Peters writes: > > I had read somewhere when JDK1.2pre v1 was released that Java3D was very > close and would likely be released in a couple of weeks. Does anyone know > what the status on this is? I'm working on a really cool 3D app that I'd > love to see running on my Linux box. So

JSDK 2.0?

1999-03-17 Thread Steve Byrne
Ken Pratt writes: > Will the JSDK be included in the first non-pre release? Servlet development kit? If it's not part of the standard Java 2 platform you get from Sun for Solaris, we don't include it. > Thanks for all your work! You have freed many of us Java developers out > here to repla

How can I configure an SNMP network?

1999-03-11 Thread Steve Byrne
Juan Carlos writes: > Hi, > > How can I configure an SNMP Linux network? I have a server and two > clients. Excuse me, can you help me to understand how your questions are relevant to JAVA on Linux? If they aren't, then you probably shouldn't be posting them here. Steve -

Java 2 (JDK 1.2) pre-release for PowerPC now available!

1999-03-08 Thread Steve Byrne
rface changed significantly from JDK 1.1.7 to JDK 1.2) - This port is statically linked with Motif 2.1. - This port was developed under a sepcial Sun's license agreement with Blackdown via Steve Byrne (Thank you Steve!) Please note: All of the development and testing was done

ColorModel exception on 32-bit display (Redhat5.2+XFree3.3.2.3+AccelX)

1999-03-07 Thread Steve Byrne
Alexander V. Konstantinou writes: > I have submitted a bug report concerning an error running the SwingSet demo > on a RedHat 5.2 machine running XFree + AcceleratedX in 32-bit mode. > After posting, I tried restarting in 16-bit mode and the demo executed. > > http://www.blackdown.org/cgi-bi

Two news items

1999-03-07 Thread Steve Byrne
Hello all. I'd like to bring two items of interest to your attention: 1) The mirrors all have a copy of 1.2 now, and the list of 1.2 mirrors has been updated to correctly reflect the current set of mirrors. 2) The PowerPC port of Java 2 to Linux is rapidly nearing release. Notice that the stat

It works!

1999-03-07 Thread Steve Byrne
Nathan Meyers writes: > My congratulations and thanks to the Blackdown porting team! > > JDK1.2 pre-v1 worked for me almost out of the box in my Redhat 5.2 > environment. Only glitch was a stubborn insistence by libfontmanager on > loading a "libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2". I can't find such a li

Re: JDK1.2 size question

1999-03-06 Thread Steve Byrne
Anand Palaniswamy writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph H. Buehler) writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anand Palaniswamy) writes: > > > > > Another bad side effect of this limitation is that the famous "return > > > memory to OS" bug can not be implemented on Linux (ie, there is no > > > heap

New kernel

1999-03-06 Thread Steve Byrne
Jens M Andreasen writes: > Alan Cox has put out a new kernel to solve the multicast issue > > ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/2.0.37pre/2.0.37-pre-patch-8.bz2 It solves one problem, but seems to uncover some others. I'm going to do a closer analysis of what's going on, but now tha

Java 2 SDK (JDK 1.2) pre-release 1 is out

1999-03-05 Thread Steve Byrne
I've uploaded a pre-release version of Java 2 for x86 Linux. It should be making its way out to the mirrors in the next day or so. If you have a really good, fast connection to the net, and you're willing to maybe have to do some environment hacking to get things to work, please check it out a

Sun booth @ LinuxWorld

1999-03-03 Thread Steve Byrne
Hey, how come none of the people who've written in about the Sun booth talked to me while I was there this afternoon? Anyway, it's true, I'm shooting for a Thursday release. Steve PS: I'll be at the booth again on Thursday.

multicast socket issues (caused by Linux kernel bug! in 2.0.3x kernels)

1999-03-02 Thread Steve Byrne
Marc Jauvin writes: > Is the bug also present in kernel 2.2.0 and up? No, 2.2.0 has a correct implementation (at least the code looks correct to me -- I still need to verify it). Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Status of 1.2 in this article

1999-03-01 Thread Steve Byrne
Tom McMichael writes: > http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/CNET/cnet_javalinux990301.html > > According to this article sun says that the 1.2 linux port will be done > in > one to two weeks. Now isn't that interesting. And here I thought it was *I* who decided when we were ready. Hmm.

Multicast sockets

1999-03-01 Thread Steve Byrne
Topi Maenpaa writes: > I have been observing your java port effort for a long time, and I'm > happy noticing that it seems pretty much ready now... > > You may already know this, but it might help you to know that the > multicast socket bug in Linux kernel is corrected in 2.2.1 (may be in >

Releasing question

1999-02-28 Thread Steve Byrne
Richard Russell asks whether we have to wait for all ports to all platforms to be done before we can release. Nope! We can release the platform ports as they are ready. Good question. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Sun's License for Java 2

1999-02-24 Thread Steve Byrne
Uli Luckas writes: > Why can IBM publish an 'almost' ready java 2 VM and why can't the linux > porters? > Maybe they can and don't know it? I'm sorry, it clearly states in our license agreement (which I don't think I can quote) that we have to pass JCK first. IBM has different licensing term

javac compiler exception

1999-02-24 Thread Steve Byrne
Ron Resnick writes: > Heh. > > You don't get to see internal javac compiler errors every day - > this was kind of neat: > > [resnick@rresnick f3]$ javac foo.java > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > sun.tools.tree.ConditionalExpression.costInline(ConditionalExpression.java)

RE: JavaLinux for servlets

1999-02-17 Thread Steve Byrne
esday, February 17, 1999 11:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: JavaLinux for servlets > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 01:17:43AM -0800, Steve Byrne wrote: > > > >

Re: graphics printing in printing

1999-02-17 Thread Steve Byrne
Thomas Down writes: > C.V. Rajagopal wrote: > > i have been experimenting with graphics printing in java under linux. > > > > when i press the print button in the print dialog box it gives an error > > message like the following > > > > "Could not execute print commands[Ljava.lang.String:

Re: JDK 1.2 Snapshots???

1999-02-17 Thread Steve Byrne
Nathan Meyers writes: > Tony Pujals wrote: > > > Ouch! ;-) > > > > (But I'd still like to know what happened to the web site information?) > > > > Tony > > Fair enough desire. Those of us who've been on the list awhile have endured > frequent storms of "where is JDK1.2?" activity, a

graphics printing in printing

1999-02-17 Thread Steve Byrne
C.V. Rajagopal writes: > i have been experimenting with graphics printing in java under linux. > > when i press the print button in the print dialog box it gives an error > message like the following > > "Could not execute print commands[Ljava.lang.String:080a5470". > > but i could prin

Re: JavaLinux for servlets

1999-02-17 Thread Steve Byrne
John Goerzen writes: > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 04:34:03PM -0800, Kevin Hester wrote: > > > > > > I would certainly not use Java for CGI. libapache-mod-perl, FastCGI, etc. > > if necessary. > > > > I'd definitely encourage anyone to use servlets with wild abandon. So easy > > and clean

Porting JDK1.1.7 to Linux

1999-02-11 Thread Steve Byrne
donald riggs writes: > Hello, > > I am attempting to port JDK1.1.7 to a Linux environment on the SA-1100 platform, >and as a preliminary exercise, I am attempting to duplicate Blackdown's successful >efforts at porting the JDK to the i386 Linux environment. As a first step, I have >

Re: jdk2.0 (jdk.12) options ?

1999-01-25 Thread Steve Byrne
Matt Zagni writes: > Well, > > I haven't received any mail from anyone concerning this yet so I imagine > you all must be downloading it to try ? > > Does the original message look like a good possiblity that it may work > on Linux ? > > Any responces ? Yes. No friggin way. The two

Re: jdk1.2 testing

1999-01-09 Thread Steve Byrne
Trevor Harmon writes: > Gabe Hamilton wrote: > > > If you need people to test jdk 1.2, I would be happy to help out. > > Me too... It would be great if the Blackdown team could put out a > pre-release of 1.2, since their web page claims that the port is at > least "running". Anyone know i

java dead?

1998-11-28 Thread Steve Byrne
Jonathan Mark Brooks writes: > Here is a rather interesting little piece of FUD from CNET. Java is > being lumped in with > OS/2, Wordperfect and Donna Summer. > > http://www.cnet.com/Content/Reports/Trends/WhereNow/ss07.html What a piece of trash! The author didn't even have the courage

Memory Allocation

1998-11-15 Thread Steve Byrne
Chris Sommers writes: > Estmeemed wizards, > How can I estimate how much memory an object or bunch of > objects consume - besides indirectly, e.g. looking at > Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory()? For example, how big is > a Vector containing 10,000 of class Double? I'm sure it will > be JVM/

Re: Deprecated `Thread.stop()' in forthcoming JDK 1.2. Why?

1998-11-13 Thread Steve Byrne
David Wall writes: > Have a method, such as stop(), that sets a boolean, and in the thread that's > running, have it loop testing if the boolean has been set by stop() or not, > and if so, then exit itself. > > Stopping a thread otherwise is problematic because it is not clear where it > wa

Re: Sun's Commitment to Port JDK 1.2 to Linux

1998-11-10 Thread Steve Byrne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My understanding (this release that you link to is very nebulous...it > doesn't really say the level of support) from what SB has said on this > list is that they are just giving the team early-access to the source > code AND the compatibility checker (JCK). Is

Re: Why Japanese......????

1998-11-09 Thread Steve Byrne
Alex Mkelemi writes: > Could anyone give me starting point: Yes. This has no relevance to this newsgroup. Please do not post things like this. > > Why Japanese have faired well in the hardware industry but have made very > little impact on software. > > Thanx >

Java Virtual Machine source code

1998-11-07 Thread Steve Byrne
FADY MOUSSA writes: > Hi, > this is Fady Youssef, a student in the American University in Cairo... We > are doing a project to extend the Java language to support real time > systems.. We need to have access to a java virtual machine source code to > extend it according to our own real-ti

Open Java

1998-11-05 Thread Steve Byrne
Nelson Minar writes: > I'd really hate to see this list get dragged into a debate about > Java Linux porting team politics. The folks who have donated their > effort to bringing Java to Linux - all of them - have done a wonderful > job. Thanks to you all! > > > However, there's an intere

Re: JDK for 21064?

1998-11-05 Thread Steve Byrne
Michael Emmel writes: > > I suspect George's biggest problem is with your narrow "company" style approach to >the JVM. We're LEGALLY OBLIGATED to be closed. We signed the non-commercial source license. We're not allowed to share with non-licensees. So we have a "licensees only" mailing

Re: JDK for 21064?

1998-11-04 Thread Steve Byrne
I've spoken with Karl who handles the blackdown.org site for the Java porting team. He says that he'd be more than happy to put the Alpha port on the mirrors. Uncle George, you'll need to let Karl know where to get the files from and he'll take care of it (though give him a day or two; he do

Re: JDK for 21064?

1998-11-04 Thread Steve Byrne
Uncle George writes: > gee fellas, I've responded to "Uncle George" in private, as I don't feel that it serves anyone's interest to hash this out in a public forum. Steve

port plans....

1998-10-30 Thread Steve Byrne
Keith T. Garner writes: > Hey Steve (and the rest of the porters) I hate to ask this question again, > if it was already asked once, though I didn't see it > > Not that you/we have the license from Sun, are you going to just start work > on 1.2, or is a port of 1.1.7 in our future? 1.1.

TechWeb article

1998-10-29 Thread Steve Byrne
They got my name wrong! Argh! I hate when that happens :-) Steve Byrne (no -S)

StrongARM port

1998-10-29 Thread Steve Byrne
Warren Little writes: > Hello, > Was wondering if you folks had any plans to port the JDK to the > StrongARM processor (such as CCC's NetWinder). I don't think anyone with that processor has volunteered to help with the porting yet. Steve

Re: Does Sun/JavaSoft support Java on Linux?

1998-10-25 Thread Steve Byrne
John Summerfield writes: > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Steve Byrne wrote: > > > John Summerfield writes: > > > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Baron Roberts wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > I just

Re: Does Sun/JavaSoft support Java on Linux?

1998-10-24 Thread Steve Byrne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > No, to everyone's disappointment, they do not. Linux support is number > one (by a friggin' huge margin--like six or seven to one) on the JDC bug > parade at developer.javasoft.com, but as of yet (as far as I know) no > official announcements have been made abou

Re: Does Sun/JavaSoft support Java on Linux?

1998-10-24 Thread Steve Byrne
John Summerfield writes: > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Baron Roberts wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > I just read the java-linux FAQ but need to get a > > bit more clarification. As of today, does Sun/JavaSoft > > officially support Java and its APIs on Linux? I > > No John is speaking fro

Does Sun/JavaSoft support Java on Linux?

1998-10-23 Thread Steve Byrne
Baron Roberts writes: > > Hi All, > > I just read the java-linux FAQ but need to get a > bit more clarification. As of today, does Sun/JavaSoft > officially support Java and its APIs on Linux? I > tried to follow the link in question 2.9 but was > asked for a user ID and password. As in

Re: applet and netscape

1998-10-21 Thread Steve Byrne
Peter Harris writes: > The problem may be that a "feature" of Netscape is that reloading a page in > Netscape does _not_ reload any associated applets. > > I think if you want to force it to reload applets you need to do something > like hold down the control key (or something like that) whi

RE: help!!!

1998-10-11 Thread Steve Byrne
Jason Dillon writes: > Try setting your classpath to contain jdk116/lib/classes.zip: > > sh: > > CLASSPATH=/where/ever/you/put/it/jdk116/lib/classes.zip > export CLASSPATH > > csh: > > setenv CLASSPATH /where/ever/you/put/it/jdk116/lib/classes.zip > > You should also set JAVA_HOME

Sorry To Bother

1998-10-10 Thread Steve Byrne
Frank Morton writes: > Sorry to bother you, but I am going nuts surfing for a java > JDK for linux running on MIPS. Is there such a thing? Not that I know of, at least not the JDK from Sun. Kaffe or Japhar might work there, or you could get a noncommercial source license from Sun (it's free, a

[Q] Can I get jdk1.1.3.diff?

1998-10-09 Thread Steve Byrne
Cheolgi Kim writes: > Dear Mr. Byrne > > How do you do Mr.Byrne. I'm Cheolgi Kim at KAIST in South Korea. > > Thank you for your porting project. > > I have jdk1.1.3 source license now. As I'm not a U.S. citizen., it's not > so easy to get newest version > > of JDK . > > I need to

Re: threads doesn't work???

1998-10-09 Thread Steve Byrne
Martin Sorgatz writes: > Martin Schmitz wrote: > > > please look at this small example!! > > what example? > > > it creates a thread, but the output is done after the main thread did > > his work!!! > > on windows it works fine! > > > > i've another software where i create a thread w

YA-HOO! v5 is out!

1998-10-09 Thread Steve Byrne
The Linux JDK Porting Team is happy to announce the availability of version 1.1.6v5 of the Linux JDK. It has all kinds of good bug fixes, including fixes for disappearing windows, crashes when using jni, sound playing fixes, setting socket options, and lots more. From the README.linux: " F

Hogging colours?

1998-10-08 Thread Steve Byrne
Dustin Lang writes: > > Hi, > > I was looking at some stuff I wrote a long time ago (before I had a sane > operating system *grin*), that does something similar to 'xlock -mode > swirl' (makes pretty wavy things). When I ran it in X, instead of > hundreds of colour I got 4. It's not nea

Re: Java app without X installed

1998-10-08 Thread Steve Byrne
Dan Kegel writes: > Steve Byrne wrote: > > John Summerfield writes: > > > > Aw, come on, man! RTFM! I covered this in great detail; you should take the > > > Well I for one don't know which frigging document you're talking about. > > I gues

Re: Java app without X installed

1998-10-08 Thread Steve Byrne
Robert Ritchy writes: > Listen - as yet another newbie - don't screw things up for me. This list > has been EXTREMELY helpful to me and my work. The promptness and quality of > reponse from this list is unmatched. These "gurus" have taken a lot time to > give us a quality product and suppor

Re: Problem running/installing JDK

1998-10-08 Thread Steve Byrne
Terry Harding writes: > Can anyone gives me any hints or clues why i might be getting the > error message described below. > > I would like to use the JDK tonight. > > Thanks in advance... > > Terry Harding wrote: > > > > All, > > > > I downloaded and installed the JDK1.1.6 v2 f

Re: Java app without X installed

1998-10-07 Thread Steve Byrne
John Summerfield writes: > On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Steve Byrne wrote: > > > > > Aw, come on, man! RTFM! I covered this in great detail; you should take the > > Well I for one don't know which frigging document you're talking about. I guess README.lin

Bug in v4a?

1998-10-07 Thread Steve Byrne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > > I installed the latest jdk. With this jdk I get a thread dump (see below) using > the following native code (just parsing a string). With jdk1.1.6-v2 it worked > just fine. Can somebody give the code a try? I am very curious if it works on > another se

Java app without X installed

1998-10-07 Thread Steve Byrne
Wim Ceulemans writes: > Hi > > I'm testing a little application that has to run on a linux server without X > installed. When I run it on my linux box without X running, it runs fine. > But when I run in on a linux box without X installed I get the following: > > /usr/local/jdk1.1.6v4a/bi

Re: Trouble JDK 1.1.6 + HOTJAVA

1998-10-05 Thread Steve Byrne
Michael Sinz writes: > On Fri, 02 Oct 1998 18:16:59 +0400, Alexander Davydenko wrote: > > >> > > * You DO NOT need to set JAVA_HOME. Doing so can be bad for your health > >> > >> What makes you think HotJava needs JAVA_HOME? Look at the launching script. I > >> think you need to set JDK

Re: How long will it take to port 1.1.7 ?

1998-10-03 Thread Steve Byrne
Andrew Burgess writes: > In mail.java-linux "Kevin B. Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >As for how long it will take to port 1.1.7? > > >This will depend on how many changes were made to the source from 1.1.6. > >Most of our diffs should apply directly but we will have to apply t

EVERYONE: javac segmentation fault

1998-10-01 Thread Steve Byrne
Eric Harlow writes: > > I installed the jdk1-1-6v4 and can compile java files fine, but running > anything > > 'java classfile' > > gets a segmentation fault. I have RedHat 5.0 on the system and need to do > a java demo next week. I would prefer not to use win95 to do the demo. > I

Re: Trouble installing JDK 1.1.6

1998-10-01 Thread Steve Byrne
John Gulizia writes: > David Buddrige wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have recently downloaded JDK 1.1.6 from > > ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Linux/java to run on my Redhat 5.1 system... > > I've un-tar'ed it into /usr/local/jdk1.1.6, and then added the following > > lines to my /etc/pro

Re: v4 patches?

1998-10-01 Thread Steve Byrne
The Glyph writes: > Where can I retrieve a precompiled v4 version of the i386 port? I've not > seen it on ANY of the mirrors, or the website. Only v2. The mirror that has "tux.org" as part of the host name (it's in North America) has a copy of v4a. > --glyph > > On 1 Oct 1998, Juergen Kre

redhat RPM & bin license.

1998-09-30 Thread Steve Byrne
Uncle George writes: > Bec of the limited space & bandwidth, I was thinking of providing a > redhat rpm for the various alpha platforms ( 21064, 21164, and the > 21164a processors ). I'd like to create the rpm, and submit the rpm to > redhat for their inclusion into the jewel set distribution

Re: Trouble JDK 1.1.6 + HOTJAVA

1998-09-30 Thread Steve Byrne
Alexandre Boissy writes: > > > Steve Byrne wrote: > > > David Buddrige writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have recently downloaded JDK 1.1.6 from > > > ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Linux/java to run on my Redhat 5.1 system...

service release to fix multicast socket bug

1998-09-30 Thread Steve Byrne
Simon Lok writes: > > Hello, > > I am in need of an immediate fix for the multicast socket bug... when > do you think the next jdk revision will be out? Do you think you can > release a patch or development JDK? Would you recommend > that I regress (ugh...) to the older revisions of the

Trouble installing JDK 1.1.6

1998-09-30 Thread Steve Byrne
David Buddrige writes: > Hi all, > > I have recently downloaded JDK 1.1.6 from > ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Linux/java to run on my Redhat 5.1 system... > I've un-tar'ed it into /usr/local/jdk1.1.6, and then added the following > lines to my /etc/profile file > > PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11

Re: fast multiple object creation ... can it be done!

1998-09-29 Thread Steve Byrne
Uncle George writes: > interesting, considering that 1.2 isn't out yet. U got a mole in the sun > organization? I used to work there until December of 97. I kept ensuring that 1.2 compiling cleanly with gcc, so the port to Linux wouldn't be too bad. Being on the inside, you get presentations

1.1.7

1998-09-29 Thread Steve Byrne
Ulrich Kortenkamp writes: > Hi, > > today (or yesterday) the solaris and windows versions of the jdk 1.1.7 > were released. Is the porting team already porting this? We don't get access to the sources before a release. In fact, if we started as soon as the sources were released, it can be

RE: Socket exceptions under 1.1.6v4

1998-09-29 Thread Steve Byrne
checking script work properly. The other changes (sockets, jni, some window manager specific fixes) are in, and we're just waiting on me to finish my version checking script. > --jason > > > On 28-Sep-98 Steve Byrne wrote: > > Paul Reavis writes: > > > My Vo

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