JDK on AMD64?

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

Hello Adriaan,

Monday, March 22, 2004, 11:47:46 AM, you wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
>> building it from scratch. However, considering that AMD64 is binary
>> compatible to IA32, it might be possible to compile the JDK on a
>> regular IA32 machine and use it to bootstrap the AMD64 version but so
>> far, I'm having trouble finding the compat module that would allow
>> such binaries to actually run (they can't find their libs).

> Hi Gabriel,

> Peter just posted a "nasty hack" script to build IA32 compat libs on amd64
> on this list. Check the archives. That might allow you to use the IA32 JDK
> and go from there.


Thanks. It builds just fine but then I end up with:

# /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/javac
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1: unsupported file layout

Seems like the compat module would have to contain some more libs.


Best regards,
 Gabriel