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On Monday 10 May 2004 13:29, Adam Smith wrote:
> On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 10:51:29PM -0500, Dan Nelson said:
> > In the last episode (May 10), Adam Smith said:
> > > I thought that last year FreeBSD finally got it's own version of JDK
> > > which stopped us having to rely on using the Linux version.
> >
> > There is a native FreeBSD binary jdk 1.3.1, but jdk 1.4 requires an
> > existing 1.4 java install to build, so it can't be used.
>
> I'll try 1.3.1 for now then -- there's no reason I need 1.4 specifically.
>
> > It's for the initial build.  Once the native binary is installed, you
> > can uninstall the linux one.
>
> Eep.  Sounds messy.

Agreed; but I find the FreeBSD version works fine in a situation where the 
Linux version often bombs after starting many processes and then claiming 
that memory has run out.

Malcolm