From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 09:58:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A054616A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:58:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.dti.supsi.ch (mail.die.supsi.ch [193.5.153.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9E043D48 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:58:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from supsi.ch (pcm2027.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.152.27]) by mail.dti.supsi.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i2OHwJv09690; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:58:19 +0100 Message-ID: <4061CC88.1090201@supsi.ch> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:59:36 +0100 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trang Nguyen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java on Free-BSD 5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:58:23 -0000 Trang Nguyen wrote: > > Hi, > > The free-bsd java download site says that java is only supported for > free-bsd version 4.8 and that there is a binary compatibility problem > with 5.x versions. Is there a download site available for 5.x and what > is the url? > I currently use jdk1.4.2 and jdk1.3.1 on a FreeBSD 5.2 box without any problem. supposing you have installed the ports, just: # cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 # make install you'll get messages telling you where and what to download Regards. -- Roberto Nunnari -software engineer- mailto:roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana Dipartimento Tecnologie Innovative http://www.dti.supsi.ch SUPSI-DTI Via Cantonale tel: +41-91-6108561 6928 Manno """ fax: +41-91-6108570 Switzerland (o o) =======================oOO==(_)==OOo========================