[MacPorts] #20662: openjdk6_bootstrap contains only i386 binaries

[Frank J. R. Hanstick]

Hello,
	Are there instructions somewhere on how to do this?

On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Aug 13, 2009, at 14:04 , Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
>> 	Can anyone tell me if any other programs ported by MacPorts that  
>> is i386 only as implied in the reason for closing this ticket?
>
>
> wine / wine-devel / wine-crossover-games are intrinsically x86  
> only, for one obvious example.  openjdk is not intrinsically x86- 
> only, as I see Solaris SPARC support, but if there's no bootstrap  
> binaries for PPC then it's unlikely to be supported by MacPorts  
> unless someone does the work to bootstrap it.
>
> It looks to me like any JDK 1.6 will work for bootstrapping,  
> although I'd be surprised if the port made any attempt to support  
> anything other than a fixed bootstrap, so someone who cared could  
> build openjdk6 PPC binaries using Sun JDK 1.6 and package them up  
> as the PPC openjdk6_bootstrap.
>
> -- 
> brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell]  
> allbery at kf8nh.com
> system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  
> allbery at ece.cmu.edu
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university     
> KF8NH
>
>
>

Frank J. R. Hanstick
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