Gary Benson wrote: > Hi Abraham, > > I'm currently working on getting OpenJDK built and running on PPC but > unfortunately it's not simply a bootstrapping issue. For OpenJDK to > build on a specific platform a fair amount of platform-specific code > needs to be written. Look in hotspot/src/cpu and hotspot/src/os_cpu > and you'll see what I mean. It's a massive job. > > Have a look at http://gbenson.livejournal.com/ if you want to track > my progress. > > Cheers, > Gary > > Abraham Alawi wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> i'm trying to compile OpenJDK on POWERPC (IBM OPENPOWER). >> >> Has anybody managed to accomplish this yet? Does the Bootstrap JDK >> have to be SUN JDK? Is it possible to cross-compile it on x86 for >> PPC? Any useful information will be much appreciated. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- Abraham >>
Thanks for your replies guys. Gary, keep up the good work, you are doing hell of job! IBM should sponsor you! ;) -- Abraham '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Abraham Alawi Unix/Linux Systems Administrator Computer Science University of Auckland e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +64-9-373 7599, ext#: 87572 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
