Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:44:09 +0100 From: Daniel Tourde <daniel.tourde@spray.se> To: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to build sun-jdk-1.5 from the source? Message-ID: <200702202144.10708.daniel.tourde@spray.se> In-Reply-To: <45DB2904.9050204@unsane.co.uk> References: <200702191920.46356.daniel.tourde@spray.se> <45DB2904.9050204@unsane.co.uk>
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Hello, > > Is it possible to build sun-jdk-1.5 from the source code? > > If yes, how to do that? > > > > To be honest, I would like to avoid to install a binary that requires > > Linux support packages. It's not that I do not like Linux (I have 3 > > Gentoo Linux at my disposal), it's simply that my machine is a FreeBSD > > machine and I would like to keep it as simple as possible. > > Your best bet in that case would be to install the diablo package from > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml (for me the 6.1 > package works fine on 6.2 and i've seen posts from other people saying > the same.) Then install the sun jdk port, which can use the diablo > package to build. You can then deinstall the diablo jdk. That's exactly what I did and it worked flawlessly. Thanks all of you for the help. ;) Daniel
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