Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:40:30 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Matt=20Sykes?= <mattmsykes@yahoo.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java support not in FreeBSD 4.5R after all? Message-ID: <20020131224030.6992.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020131142907.A4804@HAL9000.wox.org>
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--- David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > Thus spake Matt Sykes <mattmsykes@yahoo.co.uk>: > > > >I've eagerly installed FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE but sadly I could > not > > > find a > > > >trace of the native JDK/JRE. > > > > Then what is ports/java/jdk13? I have built this and used it. > > Yes, but to get it, you have to agree to the Sun license, download > the > file from Sun, get patches from another site, install a certified > Linux port of JDK to compile the source, and then maybe it will > work. > Once the FreeBSD port is certified, it can be distributed in binary > form without all of the caveats of the port. But just to answer the poster's question, "Is there an equivalent (non-certified but stable) tool suite available for FreeBSD right now?", the answer is yes, there is a native JDK 1.3.1 for FreeBSD. I don't know what others may claim about stability, but I have not found any shortcomings. --Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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