Updates on Swarm requirements

[Li An]

Hi,

I have Red Hat Linux 7.3 (Professional) installed in my PC and am 
considering to install the latest version of Swarm (Development 
Snapshot).  Based on Dr. Johnson's Swarm On-Line FAQ (questions 2.3 and 
2.7), I figured out that I may need the following setups:

(1) Paul says that "To use Java Swarm, You need to get rid of the RedHat 
Java rpms and install the Sun java tarball in /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0". But 
in FAQ, he says to choose between Kaffe and Blackdown. Does Kaffe (or) 
Blackdown belong to Sun java?

(2) Which compiler, jikes 0.47 or gcc-2.95.1, or both? Any newer versions?

(3) Emacs: is the Emacs built in Red Hat Linux 7.3 OK? Need to be put in my 
path or just keep it in where it is?

(4) tcl/tk: later than 8.04?

(5) BLT: later than 2.4g?

(6) Need a C Library Glibc-2.0 or 2.1?

If you know where to get the above items, I would appreciate it. Thanks.


Best regards,

Li


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