Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:25:20 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Daniel Tourde <daniel.tourde@spray.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to build sun-jdk-1.5 from the source? Message-ID: <20070219182520.GA41258@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200702191920.46356.daniel.tourde@spray.se> References: <200702191920.46356.daniel.tourde@spray.se>
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:20:45PM +0100, Daniel Tourde wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to build sun-jdk-1.5 from the source code? > If yes, how to do that? Yes, use the port. > To be honest, I would like to avoid to install a binary that requires Linux > support packages. It's not that I do not like Linux (I have 3 Gentoo Linux at > my disposal), it's simply that my machine is a FreeBSD machine and I would > like to keep it as simple as possible. Unfortunately java is written in java so you will have to install a binary compiler (either linux or freebsd) first to bootstrap. kris
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