On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:26:51PM -0700, Andrew Houghton wrote:
I've been playing around with DragonFly BSD for a few weeks, and thought
I'd try compiling a native JDK from ports. Surprisingly enough (more on
that later) almost everything seems to work. Admittedly, I'm not doing
deep testing -- but the plugin, the JVM, and javac have handled
everything I've thrown at them, including IntelliJ IDEA, various web
applications, and things like HPJmeter.
The one place I *am* running into problems is with Java Web Start. When
I try starting it I get:
Java Web Start splash screen process exiting .....
Bad installation. No JRE found in configuration file: No such file
or directory
I assume that it works on FreeBSD? I must admit I've never tried it.
Now, looking at the patchset there's no mention of DragonFly (not
surprisingly). The reason I was surprised that most things work is that
the patch seems to be making many choices based on system type, and it's
just not clear whether DragonFly defines anything close to the expected
system types.
I would guess that DragonFly still defines __FreeBSD__ (probably as 4) so
tha tmost things will just work.
So, I'm poking through the patchset and seeing what I can do, but
someone actually familiar with this stuff (i.e., Greg or Alexey) could
do this about a million times faster than I could, I think..
Assuming we had a DragonFly system, maybe so :).
Is there any chance of getting DragonFly into the list of "officially"
supported systems for the native JDK?
Yes. The easiest way is to do what you're doing and submit patches
when you're done. All other ways involve waiting till someone else
does it :).
I'll try and have a quick look if I get a chance and let you know if I
see anything obvious, but its going to be a little hard without a DragonFly
system to test on.
