family -- first public patchset of native Sun JDK 1.5.0 port.
Most valuable addition of this patchset is native amd64 support.
And special thanks goes to Daniel Seuffert <ds@freeBSD.org> for
making it possible by providing amd64 hardware.
This patchset was tested on following configurations: i386/4.10,
i386/5.3, amd64/5.3. 5.3-RELEASE support is quite strong and
shown no huge visible problems over last week.
But even mentioning above note, keep in mind -- THIS IS ALPHA
PATCHSET and suitable for testers/developers ONLY!
Known issues are including (but for sure not limited to):
. Browser plugin support is missing
. JVMTI, JDWP and JMX are not tested yet
. FreeBSD i386/4.10 support is suffering from hidden memory
allocation failres (ideas and patches are welcome)
NOTE ABOUT BOOTSTRAPING: It's possible to bootstrap jdk 1.5.0 using
jdk 1.4.2 (either native or linux one). There's no need to have
java/linux_jdk15 installed and working.
Supported by: FreeBSD Foundation
Important changes since last patchset:
. jdk14 port is now JDK 1.4.2 based!
. JavaWS distributing with jdk
. Runway problem fixed (fork() is no more problem for java apps)
. Sound support updated
. IPv6 support overhauled
. Drag'n'Drop support fixed (require open-motif mods)
As for now there's no more outstanding issues with this port!
FreeBSD port is also got a important of changes:
. optimized setup is now default (to get debuging bins/libs use WITH_DEBUG)
. bootstrap jdk autodetection. If WITH_LINUX_BOOTSTRAP is not set, then
it checks all known to work JDKs installed. If nothing found, forces
to install of linux-sun-jdk14
. Because of above change there's no NATIVE_BOOTSTRAP option anymore. If
native jdk14 is installed, it will be used by default.
