Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:40:36 -0400 | | From | Eric Youngdale <> | | Subject | Re: Solaris JDK on Linux? (Re: Solaris source) |
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>> On another note, Linux on x86 has had the ability to run some >> Solaris x86 binaries for quite some time using the iBCS package. From >> what I can tell, very few people use it, so I don't really put any time >> into it any more. > >Would it be *theoretically* possible to run JDK 1.1.1 for Solaris/x86 >on Linux with iBCS? I bet you'd get a whole lot of people that would >_really_ appreciate it... ;-)
Yes, it is more than theoretically possible. The main thing you need is the dynamic loader and the shared libraries that are built as ELF shared libraries.
This isn't hard - we basically have the libraries already, and I have even gotten a number of SVr4 utilities to run under Linux. The problem at the moment is that they are kind of moldy. It is just that very few people really seem to care about running SVr4 binaries under Linux, so I am not bothering to maintain the SVr4 compatibility libraries.
Note that I am *NOT* saying that few people want to use iBCS in general. That comes in quite useful for SCO binaries as well, and I think that most people who want iBCS need it for SCO binaries.
-Eric
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