From owner-freebsd-java Wed Feb 13 11:51:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mail.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F6C37B416 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:51:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (eischen@localhost) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g1DJp8Vv021489; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:51:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:51:08 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen To: Nate Williams Cc: Greg Lewis , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <15466.49663.27042.298945@caddis.yogotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > I tried to install it on 4.4 but it wanted to install X and asked me > > > > lot of quistions about it. I also needed to download two compressed > > > > files by hand (normal). Didn't hear anything about needing linux-jdk > > > > due. > > > > > > Think compiler, think bootstrapping. Trust me, you need the linux-jdk13 > > > port installed. If you don't the port build will die and complain about > > > not bootstrapping with a valid JDK. > > > > But once you have it bootstrapped, you don't need the Linux > > JDK port. Why don't you provide a native JDK as a bootstrap > > and depend on that? > > If we could provide a native JDK, we wouldn't need the port to build > anything at all. :) Oh, I see, you're prevented from releasing the binary. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message