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To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>
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Subject: Re: JDK 
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>
>I'm saying:
>
>I dug around a bit at the Web site that you mention.  He moved the Java
>stuff, and once I found that, the actual document that you're looking for
>was buried a bit.  This is what you want:
>
>	http://www.sicc.co.kr/~sjwhang/javalist/jdk/fbsdjdk1.htm

you definitely have more patience with the web than i!

>
>I don't know how the above relates to the javac and jdk ports that are in
>ports-current, but I actually had the first version that appeared working
>on my 2.1-stable system (I may have got it working with the Linux
>Netscape... can't remember... haven't used it in a month or two).
>
>Yesterday I decided to install the latest.  I grabbed the port files for
>javac-netscape, netscape3, and jdk and built them.  Now, when I run javac
>I get a segmentation fault, and netscape spits out a core file.  (Netscape
>works fine as a web viewer though) 

yep -- well, as terry said, try 3.0b2, but don't go out on the web
with it as it has some security problems.


>
>So, another datapoint...   Let me know if you get further.  

i think i'll write to the guy.  his comments on that page are quite
revealing... that freebsd needs some more work to better handle the
threads.  anyone have more info on this? (i have no idea what the
date is on that page, and things might have changed a lot.)

--steve farrell