Advogato blog for twisti

14 Aug 2008

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:11:18 GMT

CACAO 0.99.3 runs Jake2

Two days ago I actually released CACAO 0.99.3, but didn't have time to do the announcement yet. Nonetheless the release has one very cool feature: you can play Jake2 for the first time! Simply run the Jake2 Webstart (I used the jogl-1.1 one) and start fragging.

Here is a screenshot playing it on x86_64-linux:

It should run on other architectures too, I'll try powerpc when I'm back home.

26 Jul 2008

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:13:22 GMT

Finally: OpenJDK 6 b11 on Alpha Linux

Yesterday I finally was able to finish the OpenJDK build on Alpha Linux. I'm not exactly sure what really fixed the build, but definitely adding the missing compiler flags again (with -D_LITTLE_ENDIAN) helped. When Gary commited his zero work we lost some architecture dependent flags, I'll re-add them ASAP.

And now to the fun:

17 Jun 2008

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:30:27 GMT

Finally a new release... and another one.

Pheew! After more than one year our codebase was ready to get a new release... so I did. And then I noticed, because I was a bit out of practice doing a release, it had a few bugs. Yeah, of course :-( So I made another one, called 0.99.1.

With official OpenJDK Java runtime library support we are now heading to a 1.0.0 release. I hope that one will be without bugs...

17 Jun 2008

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:09:43 GMT

Changing Emacs' default font

I wanted to change the default font of Emacs without setting properties in the .Xresources. The window font can be changed with:

M-x customize-face RET default RET

I set it to misc-fixed with height 113.

The menubar font can be changed with:

M-x customize-face RET menu RET

I'm still searching for the correct font, but in my .Xresources it was:

Emacs*menubar.font: Lucida

5 Jun 2008

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:57:48 GMT

Which OpenSolaris package contains pkg-config?

It took me some time to figure that out, because it's not installed per default from CD and I haven't upgraded the whole system yet (because I'm still running on my swap partition).

It's in SUNWgnome-common-devel. Pheew...

3 Jun 2008

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:59:21 GMT

Password storage of nwamd(1)

Because I didn't know my WIFI password from the top of my head, I entered the wrong one when nwamd(1) was asking for it. But it didn't ask again. So I wondered where the passwords are stored.

After some google'ing I found the correct command:


# dladm show-secobj

Then I could delete the stored password with:


# dladm delete-secobj nwam-twisti-xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx

It seems dladm(1) is just a frontend for text files. The passwords are actually stored in /etc/dladm/secobj.conf.

28 May 2008

Wed, 28 May 2008 19:35:31 GMT

Switch to OpenSolaris?

I'm thinking about to switch to OpenSolaris on my Apple mac mini. I installed Indiana on my Linux swap partition to see how it works.

Right now I'm trying to get suspend working (http://blogs.sun.com/randyf/entry/solaris_suspend_and_resume_how), but I'm not sure it will work with this version:


May 28 21:19:41 workstation genunix: [ID 314293 kern.info]
device pci8086,27a2@2(display#0) keeps up device
sd@0,0(sd#0), but the latter is not power managed

19 Mar 2008

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:28:02 GMT

OpenJDK on ARM

Today I pulled myself together and tried to build IcedTea for ARM again. I had two options: to build it natively on an ARM board or try to cross-compile it. I decided to try the cross-compile approach.

The build did not fully finish, because I don't have ALSA libraries in my cross-build enviroment, so I just took an j2re-image from an x86_64 build and replaced

bin/java

with the cross-compiled one and copied

openjdk/control/build/linux-arm/lib/arm/

into the x86_64 j2re-image.

And it works!!!


$ uname -m
armv5tejl
$ java -version
java version "1.6.0"
IcedTea Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b06)
CACAO (build 0.98+svn, JIT mode)

(btw. this output calls 10273 Java methods)

Now I'm testing applications like DaCapo and most benchmarks of DaCapo already pass in small size.

17 Jan 2008

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:37:38 GMT

IcedTea on Alpha

After some problems with the architecture define in OpenJDK's build system, today I got the stuff built. At least the ECJ-poured one:


$ uname -m
alpha
$ openjdk-ecj/build/linux-alpha/bin/java -version
java version "1.7.0"
IcedTea Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b24)
CACAO (build 0.98+svn, JIT mode)
$ openjdk-ecj/build/linux-alpha/bin/java -cp ~/cacao/ HelloWorld
Hello World!

Let's see if I get the whole stuff built...

16 Sep 2007

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:01:20 GMT

undefined reference to `__tls_get_addr'

I had some problems to get IcedTea compiled on our i386, x86_64 and powerpc64 boxes. It turned out to be the -z def linker option and the glibc version used. A little google'ing revealed the fix. Just add the AS_NEEDED directive as shown below:


$ cat /usr/lib64/libc.so 
/* GNU ld script
   Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
   the static library, so try that secondarily.  */
OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf64-powerpc)
GROUP ( /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a AS_NEEDED (
/lib/ld64.so.1 ) )