State of openjdk on hppa

[Matthias Klose]

On 07.12.2009 14:36, Onkar Shinde wrote:
> Hi,
>
> java3d currently fails to build on hppa because it uses some sun
> specific APIs and default-jdk is GCJ on hppa. A solution for this
> could be to use openjdk-6-jdk build-dep instead of default-jdk. But
> the problem is that there are no openjdk-* packages on hppa.
>
> Does anyone know if there is any effort going on to make openjdk-*
> packages available on hppa. If not then I will have to make java3d a
> !hppa package.

openjdk builds on hppa, but doesn't run (yet). Andrew Haley once debugged it and 
found out at least one things which would need to be fixed: the assumption in 
the C++ interpreter that the stack always grows downwards, and not upwards as on 
hppa.

please could one of the hotspot developers sched some light on this, how easy 
this might to be fix, and if there are other assumptions?

thanks, Matthias