From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 02:51:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F9F716A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 02:51:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8046843D2D for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 02:51:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j.telford@sympatico.ca) Received: from [192.168.0.10] ([65.95.228.249]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <20041203025138.DQS1836.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@[192.168.0.10]>; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:51:38 -0500 Message-ID: <41AFD918.7030600@sympatico.ca> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:10:16 -0500 From: John User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: luis , "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" References: <41AEF193.6060006@satx.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <41AEF193.6060006@satx.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Java build X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 02:51:40 -0000 Yes, I had forgotten about the actual error. There must be a minor problem in the Makefile and I will send a note to the maintainer. I just tested and replicated. This is in Makefile v 1.82 2004/11/24 15:16:38 On a system that jdk has never been built on you will get the following: cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 server02# make printf: missing format character ===> jdk-1.4.2p6_6 is*** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14. But on a system where it has already been built you will get: cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14/ server01# make ===> jdk-1.4.2p6_6 is forbidden: Vulnerabilities in the browser plugin. server01# Solution: The only way to continue is to use the MINIMAL switch: cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14/ server01# make MINIMAL=yes But you won't get the browser plugins in your build. John. luis wrote: > John, thanks for the tip. My problem, though, happens right away as > soon as I hit Enter after typing "make install". Any idea what "printf: > missing format character" means? It seems as if the console/terminal > does not have a font/character library or something like that to send to > the screen a particular symbol used during this compilation. Thanks for > your help. Luis >