Next release of AlphaCore?/What do we really need?

[Wilson Morris]

Sergey Tikhonov wrote:

> Mike Barnes wrote:
>
>> On 13/02/2006, at 6:44 PM, Jon_norstog AKA Thursday wrote:
>>
>>> This is not a simple request, as I learned when I tried building it  
>>> for
>>> Alpha.  There are dependencies on dependencies, plus you have to  
>>> have a
>>> current Java development kit.  Which Sun has not releASEed the source
>>> code for and has not ported to Alpha since something like JDK 1.3.  (I
>>> hear there is a work-around but it could be gossip)
>>
>>
>>
>> I seem to recall that the newer builds of OpenOffice are quite happy  
>> using GCJ for their Java requirements, instead of Sun's JDK. This  
>> shouldn't be an issue. The big stumbling block in the past was the  
>> huge amount of non 64-bit clean code, which is why 64-bit x86 and 
>> PPC  platforms still run a version compiled for their 32-bit 
>> counterparts  - or they did, last time I checked.
>>
>> I haven't looked at OO for over a year now, but I remember 
>> discussing  it with someone once and getting the idea that getting it 
>> running  using dynamic x86 emulation might be quicker. :)
>
>
> I tried to play with it recently. OO happily uses GCJ java, but still 
> not 64-bit clean yet. There is still huge 64-bit patch pending from 
> amd64 porting project. They were going to split it into smaller parts 
> and try to integrate... After it is done - we still would need to 
> write some kind of
> trampoline code.
>
> Regards,
>
Speaking of x86 emulation, I tried em86 with AC1.  Turning on emulation
changes the situation from code not executable to file not found. 
Thanks,