Re: JDK

[norvierk@muohio.edu]

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 norvierk@muohio.edu wrote:
> 
> >     Anyone know if there's a chance of ever seeing any jdk packaged for alpha?
> 
> I can only offer a firm "maybe, but not yet" :-(  I hate to lob more work
> onto the maintainer of the i386 JDK package, but it's probably better to
> lobby them to do this.  Speaking for myself, I know that I lack the
> knowledge of the internals and arrangement of the JDK, so I definitely
> couldn't do it (I tried with woeful results).  
> 
> If needed, I can provide URLs to Uncle George's site for the precompiled
> binaries, if needed, but packaging it may be a nightmare.
> 
> FYI, this could be a source of a ton of bug reports for the Debian
> maintainer of the i386 JDK, so they may not want it.
> 
> If nobody takes it overall, I'll look into it more in a month or so (I'm
> moving this month).
> 
> C
> 

I've tried Uncle George's binaries, but they're apparently built on
redhat-5.0, and won't run on potato.

Randall