[Aurora-sparc-user] J2sdk 1.4.2

[Ben Lentz]

I asked this same question a while back and never did figure it out. 
Because you can't build the jdk from source, you have to rely on one of 
the binary distriubtions from sun. For a SPARC box, this means trying to 
get the Solaris jdk binary to run on Aurora.

There is a kernel module, solaris.ko that you can modprobe/insmod that 
supposedly will give you solaris binary compatibility and will allow you 
to run solaris binaries on SPARC linux. You next have to build a 
mini-solaris system beneath /usr/gnemul/solaris with ./lib directories 
containing all the requistite libraries from a real-live solaris 
installation.

This is where I got stopped; I don't have any solaris left anywhere, and 
I don't know anybody who can give me a shell on a solaris box for the 
purpose of tar.gzing those libraries off and sending them to my Aurora box.

Google searches to try: gnemul, solaris binary compatibility

You can also try the Apache Harmony project, which supposedly has built 
an open source java run time that is capable of driving tomcat. I 
couldn't get this to build (no SPARC binary release from Harmony, either).

Good luck! I'd be interested in knowing how far you get.
> I am trying to install JBOSS portal on my aurora 2.0 setup.  In order to
> proceed, one of the requirements is j2sdk 1.4.2.
>
> I have looked in the usual /usr and /usr/local for java and it appears
> not to be installed.   I looked on my 4 aurora cds' to see if I could
> find the needed program but could only find java-1.4.2-gcj-compat
> .....rpm - maybe I'm not sure what program name I'm looking for.
>
> I went to www.javasun.com  but couldn't locate a version that would
> install on aurora 2.0 - the self extracting fails and the other requires
> pkgadd.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated - there must be a way to run
> java applications on aurora.  How have others installed java?
>
> Tia.
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