From owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 8 00:13:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA15169 for java-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 00:13:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA15153 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 00:13:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from etorwi@eto.ericsson.se) Received: from hisoy0 (hisoy0.eto.ericsson.se [193.161.188.2]) by penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.7.5/8.7.3/glacier-1.12) with SMTP id JAA09095 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:13:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from gargleblaster by hisoy0 (5.0/LME-DOM-2.2.3 (hisoy)) id AA19693; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:13:25 +0100 Received: by gargleblaster (5.0/client-1.5 (hisoy)) id AA13413; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:16:10 +0100 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:16:10 +0100 Message-Id: <9712080816.AA13413@gargleblaster> From: Raymond Wiker To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: which JDK to use? In-Reply-To: <19971207160101.59527@vmunix.com> References: <19971207160101.59527@vmunix.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.31 under 20.2 XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mark Mayo writes: > > http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~kwhite/jdkbinaries/jdk1.1-FreeBSD.html > > As far as I know, this isn't 1.1.3 but the original 1.1 (1.1.1 I'm > assuming..). I haven't gotten this to work right, and I couldn't > get a hold of Keith to determine what the problem was (it was > Motif related..). Other people are apparently using this port > successfuly though, so it's probably just bad luck on my part! I had some trouble with this, until I deleted a font properties file (can't remember the name, but it was somewhere under jdk1.1/lib). The error I was getting was (surprise) a java.nullPointerException. //Raymond.