JDK1.1.8 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) for NetBSD
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* platforms supported: i386/a.out, i386/ELF (with a.out emulation)
* master repository: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/java/i386/1.1.8/
* based on the FreeBSD patches to JDK 1.1.8


From README.FreeBSD:
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Fixed in this release:
- Fixed weird floating point error that occured in multi-threaded code.
  Keith White (as always) came through and spotted the bug that Nate
  introduced in a cleanup/merge pass through the sources right after
  1.1.6 release.
- Incorporated the 'net' patch that was available separately to fix
  sending out UDP packets on the broadcast address into the release.

For best results, we suggest you run the most recent releases of FreeBSD,
which are 2.2.8 for the a.out releases, and FreeBSD 3.2R, to take advantage
of the fixes in those releases.

If you find bug or have bug-fixes you'd like to see integrated, please send
email to 'java-port@FreeBSD.org' so we can make future releases even better.

Known Bugs/Limitations:
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The number of sockets that can be used at any one time is hard-coded ahead
of time (at this time, it's 2000).  This is not necessarily a limitation of
the FreeBSD kernel, but coming up with a 'dynamic' scheme is non-trivial so
none of the developers has written the code, and and no-one else has
provided any patches to the development team.  If this is important to you,
we welcome any patches to provide a more 'dynamic' scheme that doesn't limit
the number of file descriptors (sockets).
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This release was compiled with Motif, but does not require Motif to run, and
as such should work much better than the LessTif compiled version.  (No
offense to the LessTif folks, but it isn't complete yet.)  To make a
a distribution that works without X *and* with X, two binaries are provided.
The first is linked without X, and is the standard binary.  The second
binary is linked against a static version of X, and against the shared X
libraries.  The version used is controlled by the setting of the DISPLAY
environment variable, which is used by X to determine where to send the
output.
