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From: David Bullock <db@dawnbreaks.net>
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Subject: Re: Tip for Intellij IDEA 3.0.5v2 with 1.4.1-p3^H4
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, David Bullock wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> > On (2003/11/04 22:05), David Bullock wrote:
> >
> > > > Simply set the property
> > > >
> > > >    -Didea.no.jdk.check=true
> > >
> > > Argh.  I spoke too soon.  I'm now having trouble with a
> > > missing class.  (Effect is not being able to open a project).
> > > Should I be talking to the porting team about this, or to the
> > > IDEA developers?  (nb. I will talk to IDEA, regardless ... since
> > > I want them to make FreeBSD a supported platform ;-)
> >
> > IDEA builds a cache of JAR files.  The file copy method it used was
> > broken in -p3, resulting in 0 byte JAR files in the cache.
> >
> > Look at the contents of ~/.IntelliJIdea/system/jars that this is your
> > problem, then upgrade your JDK to -p4.
> >
> > If that's not your problem, are you sure you followed the
> > idea-3.0.5/Install.txt instructions to the letter?  They're a bit weird,
> > but worth following strictly.
>
> Ah, now that I follow the installation instructions correctly, I
> run into the problem you describe and fix.
>
> Patchset 4 is available?!  http://www.freebsd.org/java/dists/14.html
> doesn't mention it.  It'd be worth noting this fact there. :-)
>
> I'll run off and compile it right now!

It took only 2 hours to compile it, and remember to re-copy things,
and then ... it all just works.

Thanks a million.  My choice of FreeBSD is thus vindicated!

cheers,
David.