Someone is doing a linux-sparc port! (Paul Hohensee)

[Jim Watson]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Wim,
>
> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 09:06 +0200, Wim Verreycken wrote:
>   
>> Could you be as kind as to update me on the status of this? In the
>> meantime, did anything change to the policy not to push the
>> linux-sparc port to the icedtea repo?
>>     
>
> Hotspot sparc as posted by Paul has been added to the icedtea repo by
> Matthias back in May, replacing the standard zero based support:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-May/001913.html
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/33a90721ac50
>
> Fixes for sparc32/64 have been added by Dennis and Tom in June:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-June/002392.html
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/931f7730ecf9
>
> It is currently shipping in the various GNU/Linux distros:
> http://sparc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8220
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/openjdk-6-jdk
>
> Some background can also be found in this podcast:
> http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/dgilmore_on_the_fedora_sparc
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
>   
It works fine too ;)
I checked out b9 and built it on Debian GNU/Linux SPARC recently, then 
used it to build openoffice.org without any incidents.
thanks
jim