OpenJDK for AIX?

Gary Benson gbenson at redhat.com
Thu Oct 15 08:51:01 PDT 2009


Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/10/15 Christian Thalinger <Christian.Thalinger at sun.com>:
> > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:54 +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> > > Körber Erik wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know if there are/have been any activities to port
> > > > OpenJDK to AIX?
> > >
> > > not yet, afaik - but after Zero has been pushed upstream into
> > > Hotspot, it should be much easier to get OpenJDK with the Zero
> > > interpreter backend up and running for someone wanting to do
> > > that.
> >
> > Zero HotSpot stuff has been pushed on Tuesday and the build stuff
> > today.  Go ahead! :-)
> 
> They are still in separate forests, so you need to either manually
> merge the two (hotspot-comp and build) or use the IcedTea forest:
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/icedtea/jdk7
> until both are promoted.
> 
> Happy hacking!

So I wrote some instructions about how to port Zero to BSD a while back:

  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2009-January/004543.html

Though BSD is easier as all the hotspot/src/os/bsd stuff has already
been done...

Cheers,
Gary
  
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