Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 22:31:10 +0000 (UTC) From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openjdk-7.45.18_1 is forbidden: Triggering a nasty FreeBSD bug. Message-ID: <la4pbe$1da$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <52C5ADFB.9040207@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:20:43 -0500, Stephen Cook wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to install OpenJDK and it gives me this error: > openjdk-7.45.18_1 is forbidden: Triggering a nasty FreeBSD bug. > > I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and I'm not sure where to go from here. Can I > try an earlier version or something? Googling it lead me to a pastebin > page with mention of removing "FORBIDDEN" from the makefile if you know > what you are doing, but unfortunately I don't. > > Or can anyone recommend some other Java port? My main purpose at the > moment is to screw around with a Minecraft server, although I have some > other more important (but less amusing) reasons to have Java on my > system in the near future. > As a fellow newbie, my instinct is just to wait, rather than screwing around. They don't usually take long, and I prefer to err on the side of caution. BTW, someone mentioned openjdk6, but that's marked as forbidden too.
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