From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 2:59:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2CCA37B408 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:57:42 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15u9vW-0006Rp-00; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:57:22 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:57:21 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: "Christopher R. Maden" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Tomcat and Cocoon ports? In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011018020914.00a63b30@mail.maden.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > At 01:07 18-10-2001, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > There's the Porter's Handbook. I'm pretty sure it's linked to from > > the FreeBSD Handbook (the Ports & Packages chapter). > > Thanks, Roman - I did find that link while figuring out how to upgrade the > java/jdk13 port to account for a new patchlevel. > > (Now the thing that's bugging me is why FreeBSD java depends on Linux Java > - what's the point of having a source distribution then?) Building the native version requires having a running 1.3 to bootstrap from. This is true for building any version of 1.3 from source; which leads us to wonder where it came from in the first place :-) jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk "Sufficiently large"="infinite" for sufficiently large values of "sufficiently" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message