From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 28 17:19:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15659 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:19:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caliban.dihelix.com (caliban.dihelix.com [198.180.136.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA15622 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from langfod@localhost) by caliban.dihelix.com (8.8.6/8.8.3) id OAA16867; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 14:18:19 -1000 (HST) Message-Id: <199707290018.OAA16867@caliban.dihelix.com> Subject: Re: JDK In-Reply-To: from Cliff Addy at "Jul 28, 97 07:43:35 pm" To: fbsdlist@federation.addy.com (Cliff Addy) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 14:18:18 -1000 (HST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "David Langford" X-blank-line: This space intentionaly left blank. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Cliff Addy >What is with the JDK port? I did a make install, but the executables >(javac, etc) were just left in the ports tree instead of being put >somewhere in usr/local. And when I try and run javac, I get a perpetual >string of uname errors, because the java wrapper script us trying to use a >-p option that doesn't exist. Also, no man pages or apparently any >documentation at all. > >Did I miss a step somewhere? I've never had a port that, well, wasn't a >port but just a copy of someone's code, not apparently patched for >FreeBSD. There is no true port of the JDK. I have no idea why. You can get a binary done by Jeff Hsu at: ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTs/jdk102.11-26.tar.gz -David Langford langfod@dihelix.com