Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:43:11 -0700 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK ports questions Message-ID: <20080320204311.GA35634@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <200803191755.44988.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> References: <200803191534.m2JFY1d6085430@lurza.secnetix.de> <200803191755.44988.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 05:55:44PM +0200, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > ???????? Wednesday 19 March 2008 17:34:01 ??/?? Oliver Fromme ????????????: > > Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > What is the difference between ports/java/diablo-jdk15 > > > > and ports/java/jdk15? Which of them should be used? > > > > > > ports/java/diablo-jdk15 is the ports way of installing the > > > binary package, you can do the same with pkg_add -r. > > > > I see. So I basically get the same result as downloading > > the package from freebsdfoundation.org (which is not what > > I want). > > > > Thanks for answering! > > > > > > So far I have only used the Sun-blessed binary package > > > > from the FreeBSD foundation download page, so I don't > > > > know much about the various ports. However, those > > > > packages are now quite old, so I would like to build > > > > an up-to-date JDK for FreeBSD 7. Which port should > > > > be used for that? > > > > > > For FreeBSD 7.0, you will have to install misc/compat6x > > > > But it's only required for the bootstrap, right? > > I.e. when I have built the JDK successfully, I don't > > need compat6x anymore, I assume. > > > > No, the diablo-jdk1.5.0 executable depends on > /usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.2 which is in compat6x-i386 > > Bootstrap issues exist when you need e.g. a linux jdk in order to compile > the java classes of the FreeBSD native port. In that case you install the > linux-jdk-whatever, build/install the native port, pkg_deintall the linux-jdk-... > > For some reason, now that i look at it, compat6x is not recorded as > a prerequisite for diablo-jdk1.5.0, If you installed with the packages from the Foundation site rather than the port then those packages were rolled on a 6.x machine before 7.0 existed, so naturally they wouldn't have that dependency. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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