Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:46:18 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: behanna@zbzoom.net, FreeBSD-Java <java@FreeBSD.ORG>, K.J.Koster@kpn.com Subject: Re: JDK 1.2.2 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200010100416.NAA85401@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200010091532.JAA19176@nomad.yogotech.com> from Nate Williams at "Oct 9, 2000 09:32:01 am"
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Nate Williams wrote: > > > Is there any problem if jdk1.2.2-FreeBSD is available as a port ? > > There isn't a binary available, only patches. There's no automated way > to 'build' it as a port. Hopefully we'll have binaries sometime in my > lifetime. :( Somebody _could_ do a source code based port though. There are examples in the tree of ports which require people to go and download the source code as they need to click on a license to get it. That said, there are some things to note: 1. There will hopefully be a binary port soon. 2. The port would have, as a prerequisite, installing the Linux JDK so it could bootstrap the compilation. This seems kinda silly from some perspectives :). 3. You _might_ run into the InvokerGen problem as you have to bootstrap with the Linux JDK. In terms of our JDK ports in general, some clever soul may wish to submit patches for the linux-jdk port which updates from the Blackdown RC4 to the Blackdown FCS release. In fact, I should probably do this myself since I've got it working happily at home. In fact, you don't even need to be very clever, as the patches are quite easy :). Hmmm, looking at port's Makefile I'm wondering why there is a RUN_DEPENDS line that features the Linux libc.so.5 when we're installing a glibc2 binary? Kees Jan? - Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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