Bug 116981 – request for emul-linux-x86-java-1.5

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ramana Kumar 2005-12-28 06:51:45 UTC]

request for emulation of 32-bit jre/jdk 1.5 for amd64.
see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78835

[Comment 1 Ramana Kumar 2005-12-28 06:56:55 UTC]

in particular javaws is not currently available after emerge =sun-jre-bin-1.5.06 or sun-jdk-1.5.06 on (~)amd64. this could be provided by emulation. 

[Comment 2 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2006-01-01 08:46:14 UTC]

is there an app that doesn't work with the jre provided by the current emul-linux-x86-java package? if not i don't see any benefit from adding it to the tree, and our policy has been to only package libraries/packages that are really needed

[Comment 3 Ramana Kumar 2006-01-03 13:46:38 UTC]

the reason i asked is that i use two applications: topcoder's contest arena (www.topcoder.com/tc) and wordbiz (www.isc.ro). topcoder needs javaws but wordbiz runs a lot better and looks a lot better with java-1.5 (i'm using sun's). 32-bit emulation of 1.5 would mean i only needed to install the one java on my system - currently i need to have both sun-jre-bin (for wordbiz) and blackdown-jdk (for javaws for topcoder) and need to run java-config every so often to choose the right java to run...

[Comment 4 Thomas Matthijs (RETIRED) 2006-01-03 15:05:31 UTC]

amd64 team, if you add it, don't forget to keep it package.mask'ed

[Comment 5 Jose daLuz 2006-08-14 06:08:06 UTC]

Could we take another look at this? There are many web sites that work well with 1.5 but don't work with 1.4, some to the point of crashing firefox/firefox-bin. Also, 1.5 is needed for openoffice.org. 

In bug #78835 one of the reasons for not including a 32-bit 1.5 jre was the imminent AMD64 support of openoffice.org, but 8 months later that's not here yet. I had to do a manual, non-portage install to get 32-bit 1.5, think of how many people have had to do this in the last 8 months!

I would prefer to work within Portage, not around it. Please reconsider this decision.

[Comment 6 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2006-08-15 23:55:01 UTC]

Now that we have the new Java system, and a 1.5 JRE that can be redistributed... this should be pretty easy, and implemented cleanly.

So, with the new license, we can redistribute cleanly. With the new Java system, a user can use eselect java-nsplugin to set the system nsplugin as emul-linux-x86-java-1.5

[Comment 7 Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen 2006-09-08 12:02:02 UTC]

So, what is the status of this? Is anyone working on it, or... ?

[Comment 8 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2006-09-08 12:31:50 UTC]

I had started working on this recently. If all goes well, I hope to add something in the next few days.

[Comment 9 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2006-09-14 20:33:08 UTC]

Added to portage as emul-linux-x86-java-1.5.0.08.