other architectures

[Chuck Robey]

Yuri Khotyaintsev wrote:
> 18 mar 2005 17.05, Greg Lewis/You wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:59:22PM +0000, Chuck Robey wrote:
>>
>>>I wanted to build java (jdk14) for the OpenOffice-2.0 port, but the
>>>jdk14 port tells me that for my architecture (I have dual amd64 Opterons
>>>here) the port is i386 only.
>>>
>>>Is this true, or merely that you haven't had time for amd64 yet, and it
>>>might possibly work?
>>
>>You can't compile a native amd64 binary of jdk14.  You can install
>>an x86 version you've compiled on an x86 machine and I suspect it
>>would work.  You could also try jdk15 which should build natively on
>>amd64.
> 
> 
> Copying jdk14 compiled on x86 to an amd64 machine have not worked for me. 
> There are some posts on this subject on amd64 list.
> 
> jdk15 works great!
> 

OK, that's sufficient for me, I'm off to jdk15, and my thanks for 
straightening me out!