Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 09:48:05 +0200 From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> To: Herve Quiroz <hq@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org, bortzmeyer@nic.fr Subject: Re: ports/83000: trang depends on the non-free JDK, it should depend on the free gcj Message-ID: <20050707074805.GA19683@nic.fr> In-Reply-To: <200507051929.j65JTAYM011673@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200507051929.j65JTAYM011673@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:29:10PM +0000, Herve Quiroz <hq@FreeBSD.org> wrote a message of 27 lines which said: > On the other hand, some work is in progress to have Kaffe (a free > JVM implementation) supported in bsd.java.mk. With jikes as the compiler since you do not plan to use gcj? > You may also contribute by sending a patch to bsd.java.mk for it to > support GCJ. Sorry, no time today. I looked at the source for the Debian packages and it seems as simple as configure && make && make install but it does not work out of the box on FreeBSD. > As for Debian, I think they are not allowed to distribute Sun's JDK > anyway, Neither is FreeBSD, that's why the port instructs the user to download JDK himself. > FreeBSD ports system contains 14 different working JDKs, all > supported by bsd.java.mk... All of them from the same stub, the non-free Sun environment.
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