From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 06:04:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2752116A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 06:04:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FEF43D46 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 06:04:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D91005643C; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:04:42 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:04:42 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: John Message-ID: <20050116060442.GA847@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20050115210617.A20158@starfire.mn.org> <20050116041626.GB13042@osiris.chen.org.nz> <41E9F612.5030901@taborandtashell.net> <20050115233404.B20530@starfire.mn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050115233404.B20530@starfire.mn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need a cuppa... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 06:04:44 -0000 On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:34:04PM -0600, John wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: > > > > > >>OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed > > >>and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ, > > >>and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the > > >>latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get > > >>how to get Java support for FreeBSD. I don't need the JDK, unless > > >>that's the only way to get a viable JRE. > > > > > > > > > You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the > > > JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14. > > > > > > Cheers. > > > > But make sure you have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and > > obviously linux emulation). > > > > PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires > > java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be > > safely removed. > > Oh, my word! They don't make this easy, do they??? Blame Sun; they don't make it easy for organizations like FreeBSD to release a binary version of Java. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't want to achive immortality through my works.. I want to achieve it through not dying" - Woody Allen