Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:34:04 -0600 From: John <john@starfire.mn.org> To: Tabor Kelly <tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Subject: Re: I need a cuppa... Message-ID: <20050115233404.B20530@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <41E9F612.5030901@taborandtashell.net>; 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800 References: <20050115210617.A20158@starfire.mn.org> <20050116041626.GB13042@osiris.chen.org.nz> <41E9F612.5030901@taborandtashell.net>
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: > > > >>OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed > >>and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ, > >>and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the > >>latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get > >>how to get Java support for FreeBSD. I don't need the JDK, unless > >>that's the only way to get a viable JRE. > > > > > > You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the > > JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14. > > > > Cheers. > > But make sure you have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and > obviously linux emulation). > > PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires > java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be > safely removed. Oh, my word! They don't make this easy, do they??? -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG
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