On Sunday 09 October 2005 03:50 am, Steve Graegert wrote:
On 10/9/05, B. Stia
wrote: Hello SuSE people.
I visited the Sun site tonight and saw a download that was titled AMD64.
http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
Could this be the 64 bit java we have been waiting for? Or, am I just mis-interpreting it. I downloaded it tonight, built the rpm and looked inside. Didn't really see anything that looked like 64 bit. ????
How does 64-bit Java look like? You will not be able to destinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit java. If both versions should exist side by side just download the self-extracting version (contains the file jre-1_5_0_04-linux-amd64.bin) and provide a custom installation directory (i.e. /usr/lib/java5_64) during setup.
Welllll.... you are correct. What DOES it look like? Hmmm how do we know? Is this 64 bit or is it not ??? Created a unique /opt/java directory where the source was placed and the rpm was built and resides. (just in case there needed to be two versions) But, the rpm decided to install itself to /usr/java. (which I don't know whether it existed before that, or is new, or if it did exist- overwrote the older version AND then, is it 64 bit or not? And, if it truly is 64 bit, where are the (whatever their names are) .so & .a files which need to be linked to Firefox to make it work??? Frustrating stuff. No better off than when I started this drill. Anybody else get java working in 64 bit mode or am I trying to be a pioneer here? Bob S.