OpenJDK BSD Port project: why FreeBSD Java Fondation is not metioned?

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 3 15:11:05 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 03 September 2008 08:39 am, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Lev Serebryakov <lev at freebsd.org> 
wrote:
> >  BSD Port of OpenJDK is announced by Sun, by Sun empolyees:
> >
> > 
> > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2008-August/00005
> >8.html http://openjdk.java.net/projects/bsd-port
> > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2008-August/00
> >0191.html
> >
> >  But this announces doesn't mention FreeBSD Java port, FreeBSD
> > Java Team and Foundation at all.
> >
> >  Is this project coordinated with FreeBSD Java team? Is FreeBSD
> > Java Team interested in it?
>
> Considering the first URL mentions that they do so "On behalf of
> Greg Lewis, Kurt Miller and Landon Fuller", this at least sounds
> like this is in coordination with the FreeBSD Java Team.

Yes.  All of us signed SCA and BSD patchsets are already in Mercurial:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port/corba/rev/8a7e68362fa8
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port/hotspot/rev/be94a5de4d32
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port/langtools/rev/23334553c010

I haven't tried it myself but Landon Fuller's build instruction is 
here:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/bsd-port-dev/2008-August/000006.html

Jung-uk Kim


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