[OSM-talk] End of road for JOSM on OS X for ppc

Peteris Krisjanis pecisk at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 13:41:28 BST 2010


2010/9/16 Arigead <captain.deadly at gmail.com>:
> Renaud MICHEL wrote:
>> Le mardi 14 septembre 2010 à 16:32, Arigead a écrit :
>>> Don't think that changing the OS to Ubuntu will make any difference.
>>> I've not checked but if you do change to Ubuntu you'll still be trying
>>> to download the Java version for Linux on PPC. I don't think that will
>>> be supported by sun. But like I say I've not checked. The latest Java is
>>> only supported on Intel 86 Arch as far as I remember.
>>
>> If you want the "official" java from Sun (which doesn't even exists
>> anymore), no.
>>
>> But openjdk can be compiled on other architecture.
>> Debian has it for alpha amd64 armel i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc sparc, see
>> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openjdk-6-jre
>> so ubuntu should too
>>
>
> I tried that for something else but unfortunately the Java6 source was
> trying to run features which were not implemented by the open source
> JRE's. Still you're right that an open JRE might implement enough of the
> spec to get JOSM off the ground.
>

Interesting, I run lastest JOSM with OpenJDK without any big fuss on
Ubuntu 10.04.

It should run on Mac OS X.

Cheers,
Peter.



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