[Aurora-sparc-user] Aurora 2.0 Java? (UltraSPARC 2)

[Dennis Gilmore]

Once upon a time Saturday 07 July 2007, Charles Tryon wrote:
> OK, this is an interesting twist...  I'm running the 2.99 beta, and in
> addition to a huge number of other advancements, I've discovered that
> there is a copy of both a 1.4.2 jre, but there is also a version of the
> Eclipse java compiler.  I've only tested it on a couple really simple
> classes, but it seems to be working!!
>
> I'm still interested in following the Blackdown java, but this seems to
> scratch the immediate itch, and it's even a slightly newer version
> (1.4.2 vs. 1.4.1).
>
the java in 2.99 is gcj  its not a 100% drop in for suns java.  right now 
eclipse itself does not run.  I need to spend some time working out why and 
fixing it.  currently it takes about 8 hours to build on a T1000.  though its 
largely single threaded.   

As soon as i get some time i plan to work on getting OpenJDK built  using 
IcedTea  which is Red Hats work to get it in shape for release in RHEL and 
Fedora.

Dennis