Re: Java on Debian s/390

[Patrick Finnegan <pat@computer-refuge.org>]

On Saturday, September 10, 2011, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:15:34AM -0400, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > Has anyone got the IBM JRE working on Debian for s/390?  I'm using
> > Debian/testing on my z890.  I tried the current version (v6) of
> > both the 32-bit and 64-bit JRE installers, and neither one worked.
> >  The 32-bit one complained of a missing libstdc++5 (ok, that's a
> > bit old), and the
> 
> > 64-bit version gives me a Java error in the installer:
> Installers?  Use the tar archives.  Works just fine for me.  You
> can't use the 32bit version if you need libstdc++5 though, because
> we don't ship that in Debian anymore (at least for s390).  However
> the 64bit version works if you install lib64gcc1.  (And yes, s390x
> will hopefully come soon.)

At least for the latest versions, the links labelled "tar archive" are 
shell archives that have the installer. :(

I'll see what I can find on older releases.
-- 
Patrick Finnegan