Bug 345433

Summary:	Removal of Java support on ia64
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Petteri Räty (RETIRED) <betelgeuse>
Component:	[OLD] Java	Assignee:	Java team <java>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	dschridde+gentoobugs, ia64
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	228929, 292286
Bug Blocks:

Description Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-11-14 19:27:55 UTC

19:16 <@armin76> Betelgeuse: yeah, as i said on the bug, i'd prefer if you do that
19:17 <@armin76> Betelgeuse: i really don't have the time to go through java stuff, it would be nice if someone helps me instead
19:17 <@Betelgeuse> armin76: which bug?
19:17 <@Betelgeuse> armin76: I only remember talking with alpha / arm
19:17 <@armin76> bug 292286
19:17 <+willikins> armin76: https://bugs.gentoo.org/292286 "Please stabilize/keyword dev-java/jaxme-0.5.2"; Gentoo Linux, Java; NEW; caster@g.o:java@g.o
19:18 <@armin76> and bug 228929
19:18 <+willikins> armin76: https://bugs.gentoo.org/228929 "dev-java/jrockit-jdk-bin-1.5.0.14 fails to fetch"; Gentoo Linux, Java; NEW; matti.nykyri@iki.fi:java@g.o
19:18 <@Betelgeuse> armin76: Do you know if you have users?
19:19 <@armin76> nope
19:19 <@armin76> doubt it
19:20 <@Betelgeuse> armin76: How about we draft a news item and if no-one complains do it?
19:21 <@Betelgeuse> shown to: ia64 && java-config installed
19:24 <@armin76> Betelgeuse: your choice
19:25 <@Betelgeuse> Ok I'll draft one and send to gentoo-dev

Comment 1 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-02-19 19:41:09 UTC

News item finally committed, removal scheduled for second half of March.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-03-01 05:59:49 UTC

for people who want to see java stay on itanium, we'll need updated jdk/jre packages.  the problem is simple: the only jdk/jre we ever had for itanium was the dev-java/jrockit-jdk-bin package.  but that is stuck at 1.5.x while everyone else has moved on to 1.6.x.

from what i can tell, the guys who made jrockit (BAE) got bought up by Sun (now Oracle), and their product is no longer produced for the Itanium.

further, the main package (sun-jdk) has never had an Itanium port.

so without these things, we simply cannot do java on ia64.  if someone wants to dive in and figure out an updated solution, we'll certainly revisit the issue.

Comment 3 Dennis Schridde 2011-03-01 16:32:02 UTC

dev-java/icedtea[zero] works (partly) on ia64. I had 6.1.9.4 or some similarly "old" version running without problems, but current .7 crashes a lot. I have created bugreports at the icedtea bugtracker (search for me as reporter).

Comment 4 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-04 15:26:53 UTC

I suggest to drop java support on ia64 as planned...if someone is interested in having java on ia64, once we find a working jvm we can rekeyword some packages...

Comment 5 Ralph Sennhauser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-31 15:29:44 UTC

Added to profiles/arch/ia64/package.use.mask:

# Ralph Sennhauser <sera@gentoo.org> (31 Dec 2011)
# Needs dev-java/fop which is not available for ia64 due to missing JVM #345433
net-analyzer/wireshark doc-pdf

Comment 6 Ralph Sennhauser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-01-04 09:07:35 UTC

Added to profiles/arch/ia64/package.use.mask:

# Ralph Sennhauser <sera@gentoo.org> (4 Jan 2012)
# ruby_targets_jruby triggers direct dependency on missing JVM #345433
dev-ruby/hpricot ruby_targets_jruby


All other packages with optional java support are covered by the current profiles/arch/ia64/use.mask

Comment 7 Ralph Sennhauser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-11 13:37:00 UTC

As announced ia64 support suspended.

The currently most promising alternative for ia64 users is icedtea.