alpha port status

[Ronald Klop]

On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:03:12 +0200, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com>  
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 03:13:13PM +0200, Csere Matyas wrote:
>> im planning on installing fbsd on an alphaserver. the only thing that is
>> keeping me from giving it a try, is that i have no idea what java is
>> supported under it.
>> which versions of java are available for the freebsd-alpha port?
>> more specifically, i want to run jakarta tomcat 5, anyone done that on
>> this platform?
>
> The only Java support on the Alpha that I know of is that Compaq released
> a JDK for Linux at one point that run under Linux emulation.  I think it
> was JDK 1.2.
>
> We have some half-baked Alpha support in the JDK 1.3 sources, but it  
> needs
> someone to pick it up and finish it.
>

For the record: I have Compaq's JDK 1.3 running on an Alpha linux machine.

Linux 2.2.21 alpha

$ java -version
java version "1.3.1"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition
Classic VM (build 1.3.1-1, native threads, jit)


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  Ronald Klop
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