From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 08:38:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA14124 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:38:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mangle.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (mangle-qmw.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.95.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA14115 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root@canary.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [192.135.231.3] by mangle.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3/DCS-srvr-3.0) with ESMTP; id QAA09468; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:37:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.89.3] by canary.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.7.5/QMW-server-2.8s+SMS) with SMTP; poster "Scott Mitchell "; id QAA09495; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:37:11 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:36:19 +0100 Message-Id: <199608291536.QAA26998@crux> To: Sujal Patel Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: javac, jdk etc In-Reply-To: <101341310@toto.iv> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sujal Patel said: >On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Vlad wrote: > >> (1) I install all three ports (netscape3, jdk-1.0.2, and javac_netscape) >> with little trouble (I have to modify the Makefiles for netscape3 port to >> have the latest version of netscape as well as java_30 instead of moz...what- >> ever.zip installed). Netscape as a browser runs Ok, I can see applets (including >> some I've written myself in Solaris JDK), but javac always fails with this >> message: >> Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread > >The javac_netscape port hasn't actually worked correctly since early >Netscape 3.0 betas or Netscape 2.0(2?) > > >> (2)Is JDK really necessary ? Why are the files installed by jdk port >> required, seeing that they are for Solaris after all ? > >The files that it installs from the Solaris JDK are needed, they are >actually interpreted by the Java virtual machine. > >Instead of using javac_netscape (unless you dig up a version of Netscape >that works), I would suggest you get the "kaffe" port. It will allow you >to do what you want (but it still has some bugs). > > >Sujal > > kaffe doesn't support any graphical stuff, unless things have changed dramatically since the last release that I saw. Jeffrey Hsu's port of the 1.0 JDK (also AWT-free) has always worked better than kaffe for me. I can send you a copy of this if you want it. Scott =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell, CompSci Dept, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK mailto:scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~scott finger scott@ruby.dcs.qmw.ac.uk for PGP public key