Icedtea on FreeBSD PowerPC

[Curtis Hamilton]

My initial success was in building the mercurial OpenJDK7 BSD-Port, using
the attached build script and instructions obtained from the OpenJDK Wiki
Darwin9Build section.  Subsequently, I used information from the arm patch
to modify the ports Makefile and build the ports distribution.  Other than
what's in the make file patch, no other patches were needed, as I used the
mercurial build as the bootstrap.

As you previously noted, the key for non-x86 builds is the bootstrap.  I
used the GCC java tools and created a bootstrap from sym links to the GCJ
executables in /usr/local/bin.   I can provide more details if needed,
however, building GCC java is not straight forward as it is not an available
option for non-x86 GCC builds.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Lewis [mailto:glewis at eyesbeyond.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 9:21 PM
To: Curtis Hamilton <hamiltcl at verizon.net>
Cc: freebsd-java at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Icedtea on FreeBSD PowerPC

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 08:00:47AM -0400, Curtis Hamilton wrote:
> After many failed tries, I finally succeeded in building Openjdk 7 on 
> PowerPC64.  Anyone interested in how it was done or wants the binaries?
> 
> My next challenge is to build OpenJDK 8 on PowerPC64 .

Cool :)

Do you have patches or were no code changes required?

-- Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-java at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-java at freebsd.org]
> On Behalf Of Curtis Hamilton
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 9:20 AM
> To: 'Greg Lewis' <glewis at eyesbeyond.com>
> Cc: freebsd-java at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Icedtea on FreeBSD PowerPC
> 
> Thanks for the insight, but l don't have a sufficient bootstrap to for 
> openjdk8.  Like I said, I've had some success building openjdk6, but I 
> get a seg fault and core dump when the newly created 'java' executable is
run.
> 
> It would be helpful if you could view the attached log file that is 
> created and point me to what I'm doing wrong.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Curtis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Lewis [mailto:glewis at eyesbeyond.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 12:38 AM
> To: Curtis Hamilton <hamiltcl at verizon.net>
> Cc: freebsd-java at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Icedtea on FreeBSD PowerPC
> 
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 04:39:59PM -0400, Curtis Hamilton wrote:
> > Has anyone been successful in building openjdk6 or openjdk7 using 
> > icedtea on a FreeBSD PowerPC based system?  If so, I'd love to know 
> > how
> you did it.
> > 
> >  I've successfully implemented a workable bootsrap using GCJ and 
> > ECJ, but encounter problems in building HotSpot.
> 
> You may be able to build openjdk8 using the Zero VM if you apply the 
> patches from
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201308
> 
> and additionally modify the Makefile to also allow the correct ARCH 
> settings for powerpc.
> 
> However, that would still require some sort of bootstrapping, so maybe 
> you'd hit the same error still, depending on what is causing that.
> 
> -- 
> Greg Lewis                          Email   : glewis at eyesbeyond.com
> Eyes Beyond                         Web     : http://www.eyesbeyond.com
> Information Technology              FreeBSD : glewis at FreeBSD.org

-- 
Greg Lewis                          Email   : glewis at eyesbeyond.com
Eyes Beyond                         Web     : http://www.eyesbeyond.com
Information Technology              FreeBSD : glewis at FreeBSD.org
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