Re: Java development on debian ppc

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"SJ" == Stephen Judd <stephen@cyberelves.co.nz> writes:

Stephen,

   SJ> I installed jikes so I could do some Java hacking.  jikes
   SJ> complains that it cannot find stuff:
   SJ> [...]

   SJ> This is not just a path problem - there are no basic java
   SJ> packages on my box, it would seem.

   SJ> So the core Java classes were not installed with the jikes
   SJ> deb.

   SJ> Poking around, jdk1.1-devel is not available; I have
   SJ> java-common installed and java-virtual-machine. What can I
   SJ> do to get these missing classfiles?

I grabbed the 1.2.2 RC 4 release of the Java Development Kit from
Blackdown.org (<http://www.blackdown.org>).  They have several
mirrors, including
<ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/>
The PowerPC stuff is in JDK-1.2.2/ppc/rc4/ below the top level of
the mirror.

I ended up using jdk-1.2.2-RC4-linux-ppc-glibc-2.1.3.sh, a 20 MB
zip file with a Bourne shell wrapper to unpack it.  There's also a
17 MB bzipped tar file, jdk-1.2.2-RC4-linux-ppc-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2,
and smaller runtime environment packages.

See the README-rc4 file (in the FTP archive) for more information.

   CMC

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