[Aurora-sparc-user] J2sdk 1.4.2

Tue Oct 3 09:23:11 EDT 2006

If you download the blackdown port it should work just fine.  The only 
sparc port I see out there is jdk 1.4.1_01.  However, it works with no 
issue on Ultra 5's...

Mark E. Einstein wrote:
> ben -
> thanks for the fast reply.  like you, i no longer have access to 
> solaris disks.   i was hoping to play with jboss on my test machine 
> but it looks as if i'm getting in over my head.
>
> i'll keep you posted if anything turns up.
> tnx.
> m
>
>
> At 07:59 AM 10/3/2006, you wrote:
>> 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.
>>> M
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark E. Einstein
>>> Sr. Statistical Associate
>>> meinstei at purdue.edu
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> ====================================================
> Mark E. Einstein
> Sr. Statistical Associate
> meinstei at purdue.edu
>
> Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College
> Chief Web Officer (CWO)
>
> AquaNIC :  http://aquanic.org/
>
> sgnis : http://sgnis.org/
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