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On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:20:43 -0500, Stephen Cook wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I'm trying to install OpenJDK and it gives me this error:
>          openjdk-7.45.18_1 is forbidden: Triggering a nasty FreeBSD bug.
> 
> I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and I'm not sure where to go from here. Can I
> try an earlier version or something? Googling it lead me to a pastebin
> page with mention of removing "FORBIDDEN" from the makefile if you know
> what you are doing, but unfortunately I don't.
> 
> Or can anyone recommend some other Java port? My main purpose at the
> moment is to screw around with a Minecraft server, although I have some
> other more important (but less amusing) reasons to have Java on my
> system in the near future.
> 
As a fellow newbie, my instinct is just to wait, rather than screwing 
around. They don't usually take long, and I prefer to err on the side of 
caution.

BTW, someone mentioned openjdk6, but that's marked as forbidden too.