From owner-freebsd-java Wed Feb 13 12: 2:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA06037B416 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:02:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09433; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:02:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1DK2BR29384; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:02:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15466.50754.557985.67655@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:02:10 -0700 To: Daniel Eischen Cc: Nate Williams , Greg Lewis , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: References: <15466.49663.27042.298945@caddis.yogotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) 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 > > > > > 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. We've got the license. We've just got to run it through some tests to verify we're 'legal'. Unfortunately, the testing setup is not as nice as it could be, to put it mildly. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message