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Subject: RE: problems with jdk1.2 beta?
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 18:18:21 +0100
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Dear Jonathon,

Sorry for misspelling your name before.

> 
> okay, NOW it's telling me my ALT_BOOTDIR does not point to a 
> valid jdk.  I
> have 1.1 installed, and it's telling me i need 1.2 to 
> bootstrap 1.2?  What kind of sense is that?
>
*grin* I'm not sure why Sun did this. As it is, you need a 1.1.8 JDK, a
1.2.2 JDK and the Swing port for FreeBSD to build the native JDK. I have no
good answer why, I just know what.

There is a detailed description of the build process on my web site:
http://kjkoster.org/java/index.jsp?page=content/howto.jsp

    Kees Jan

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