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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 1997 08:19:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To:        boia01@castor.GEL.USherb.CA, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: JDK 1.1.4
Message-ID:  <XFMail.971015103956.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>

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Alex said:
>You can also use the Linux port at: www.blackdown.org

And then he wrote:
>When you execute "java" or "javac", these file are actually symbolic 
>links to a file called ".java-wrapper".   This is a shell script that 
>configures the environment, among other things.

>The problem is that this shell script invokes a few system-related 
>binaries like "uname" which have different parameters on FreeBSD than on 
>Linux.

>You can just arrange the shell script to use the proper parameters and 
>you won't get these anoying messages.

Olaf said:
>The Linux JDK from java.blackdown.org works very well with Linux emulation,
>too (after tweaking bin/.java_wrapper a little). 



How does one go about using the linux java port?  I've downloaded 1.1.3-v2 and 
the updater to v2-1 from blackdown.

Would anyone be willing to send me a copy of their .java-wrapper?  I'll try some
tweaking, but shell scripting is not my strong point!

Much obliged!

Patrick



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