Sun JDK 1.3.1_12 with SuSE 9.1 AMD64

Hello! Has someone got Sun JDK 1.3.1_12 running with SuSE Linux 9.1 AMD64? I am getting following error during compilation: error: compiler message file broken: key=compiler.err.sun.io.MalformedInputException arguments=null, null, null, null, null, null, null I had to patch $JAVA_HOME/bin/java to make java think that x86_64 is a i386 platform... BTW: Sun JDK 1.4.2_03 is running fine. CU Thomas