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From: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: JDK 1.2.2 for FreeBSD
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Nate Williams wrote:
> > > Is there any problem if jdk1.2.2-FreeBSD is available as a port ?
> 
> There isn't a binary available, only patches.  There's no automated way
> to 'build' it as a port.  Hopefully we'll have binaries sometime in my
> lifetime. :(

Somebody _could_ do a source code based port though.  There are examples in
the tree of ports which require people to go and download the source code
as they need to click on a license to get it.

That said, there are some things to note:

1. There will hopefully be a binary port soon.
2. The port would have, as a prerequisite, installing the Linux JDK so
   it could bootstrap the compilation.  This seems kinda silly from
   some perspectives :).
3. You _might_ run into the InvokerGen problem as you have to bootstrap
   with the Linux JDK.

In terms of our JDK ports in general, some clever soul may wish to submit
patches for the linux-jdk port which updates from the Blackdown RC4 to
the Blackdown FCS release.  In fact, I should probably do this myself
since I've got it working happily at home.  In fact, you don't even need
to be very clever, as the patches are quite easy :).  Hmmm, looking at 
port's Makefile I'm wondering why there is a RUN_DEPENDS line that features
the Linux libc.so.5 when we're installing a glibc2 binary?  Kees Jan?

					- Greg


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