From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 22:28:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F1B437B401 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:28:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from doar2.weizmann.ac.il (doar2.weizmann.ac.il [132.77.22.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DB543FD7 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vsbenzi@weizmann.ac.il) Received: from uma.weizmann.ac.il (uma.weizmann.ac.il [132.77.26.36]) by doar2.weizmann.ac.il (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5P5RvRL010723; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:27:58 +0300 (IDT) Received: from ella.weizmann.ac.il (ella.weizmann.ac.il [132.77.26.70]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by uma.weizmann.ac.il (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h5P5Kun01684; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:20:56 +0300 (IDT) From: Benzi Mizrahi To: Gary Kline , Matthew Seaman , "Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:23:46 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030624190106.03D3737B401@hub.freebsd.org> <20030624210551.GC84673@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030624222759.GD70952@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20030624222759.GD70952@tao.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-8-i" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306250823.46567.vsbenzi@weizmann.ac.il> Subject: Re: JDK on freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 05:28:03 -0000 =E1=E9=E5=ED =F8=E1=E9=F2=E9, 25 =E1=E9=E5=F0=E9 2003, 01:27, Gary Kline = =EB=FA=E1: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:05:51PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:42:21PM -0700, Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent wrote: > > > Marco Trentini wrote: > > > > Vincent Chen wrote: > > > > > Hi, all > > > > > > > > > > I need a jsp engine on freebsd. One installation on > > > > > linux from my office works great so far. What's the > > > > > status and how stable JDK are on freebsd? Which jdk > > > > > version will you recommend? Is there any ready-to-go > > > > > package available or I must build it from port? > > > > > > > > There is a article suitable for this topic: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/ind= ex > > > >.html > > > > > > This is really fairly rediculous; is this the native FBSD JDK: > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/x35.h= tm > > >l ? > > > > > > Why the dependancy on the Linux JDK? Why bother with a "native" JDK = if > > > you need the Linux one, anyway, and can run it instead (via the > > > already-required Linux compatibility)? > > > > You need a linux JDK to do the first time installation of the native > > JDK -- both for jdk13 and jdk14. Once you've got a native jdk > > compiled and installed, you can pkg_delete the linux jdk, and use the > > native jdk to compile updated versions of itself (via the > > NATIVE_BOOTSTRAP=3Dyes make flag). One of the really annoying things > > about java is that you can't compile and install JDK 1.4.1 using any > > flavour of JDK 1.3.1, so if you want both JDK versions, you've got to > > go through the whole install process from scratch each time. > > > > You need linux-compat as one of the linux JDK's dependencies. Once > > you have dispensed with the linux JDK you could probably dispense with > > the whole linux compat stuff as well. The native JDK works just fine > > without. > > > > On the other hand, if you've got a whole row of machines to install > > jdk's on, so long as you aren't in any sense publishing an > > unauthorized-by-Sun JDK, there's nothing to stop you going through the > > download, install linux jdk, download, compile, install native jdk > > rigmarole on just one of the machines, and then build your own package > > of the native jdk to install on the other boxes. > > It's likely just me. But on one of three BSD servers I have > java (linux) working happily with mozilla. The other two may > have upgrade/dependency probledms... or else gremlins > that say "Huh?" regarding jdk-131. > > There are probably dozens of us, if not billions, who would > profit from a step-by-step tutorial style write up on this. > > Dunno about anyone else, but at least I would love to shuck > the linux stuff and go native FreeBSD. Anybody willing? > same here... > > gary benzi