Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:25:20 -0500 From: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> To: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation Questions (JDK on FreeBSD 4.9) Message-ID: <1073946319.3795.44.camel@closetotheedge> In-Reply-To: <200401122038.24672.znerd@FreeBSD.org> References: <1073935779.3795.29.camel@closetotheedge> <200401122038.24672.znerd@FreeBSD.org>
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Thanks twice! Once regarding JDK. And twice because you made me realize that I never had an up-to-date ports collection since starting with FreeBSD due to the fact that I didn't add "ports-all tag=." in my supfile. Cheers, Duane On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:38, Ernst de Haan wrote: > Hi Duane, > > > > I see that the latest patchset for 1.3.1 is '9', not '8'. How do I > > compile with patchset 9? > > Do the following: > - Use CVSup to update your ports collection. > - Confirm that the java/jdk13 port is now patchset 9 > - Install the port sysutils/portupgrade if you don't have it yet > - Do 'portupgrade jdk' to upgrade jdk13 to patchset 9 > > > It looked like if I just edit the Makefile in /usr/ports/java/jdk13 and > > change the line "JDK_PATCHSET_VERSION=" to '9', that would do it, but > > apparently not. What else must I do to it to compile with patchset 9? > > (I tried w/ NO_CHECKSUM="yes", but that still didn't do it -- I see that > > distinfo has the MD5 checksums for j2sdk-1_3_1-src.tar.gz and > > bsd-jdk131-patches-8.tar.gz) > > If you would have done a 'make makesum' as well you would have got one step > further, but then perhaps something changed in the port itself as well, so > you would miss out on that with that kind of approach. > > > And can anybody tell me exactly what the 'real' story and status of JDK > > on FreeBSD is? Should I even be concerned about patchset 9? Is it > > As far as I know, JDK 1.3.1 patchset 9 is considered to be stable. > >From my experience, so is JDK 1.4.2 patchset 5. I switched over from JDK > 1.3.x to 1.4.x a few months ago. But since I'm currently not running it in > a production environment, I'm really not the one to ask. On my workstation > it works like a charm though, with my daily Ant and Orion work. > > I'm using FreeBSD 4.x still, but both 4.x and 5.x branches are supported. > Some features, like SMP-friendly threading, seems to work only on 5.x, > though. > > Just my EUR 0.02... > > > Ernst > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-java@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-java-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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