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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:57:21 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Tomcat and Cocoon ports?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0110181056070.11492-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011018020914.00a63b30@mail.maden.org>

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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Christopher R. Maden wrote:

> At 01:07 18-10-2001, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> >    There's the Porter's Handbook. I'm pretty sure it's linked to from
> >    the FreeBSD Handbook (the Ports & Packages chapter).
>
> Thanks, Roman - I did find that link while figuring out how to upgrade the
> java/jdk13 port to account for a new patchlevel.
>
> (Now the thing that's bugging me is why FreeBSD java depends on Linux Java
> - what's the point of having a source distribution then?)

Building the native version requires having a running 1.3 to bootstrap
from.

This is true for building any version of 1.3 from source; which leads us
to wonder where it came from in the first place :-)

jan


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