Re: OpenJDK on PPC/PPC64 -- non-SUN Bootstrap JDK? Cross-compile?

2007-07-12 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 12:12 +1200, 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 informatio

Re: OpenJDK on PPC/PPC64 -- non-SUN Bootstrap JDK? Cross-compile?

2007-07-12 Thread Gary Benson
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'l