Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:06:41 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: java question. Message-ID: <20050103000641.GA82833@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050102215027.M23111@wcborstel.nl> References: <20050102211531.GA82339@thought.org> <20050102215027.M23111@wcborstel.nl>
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:57:17PM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:15:31 -0800, Gary Kline wrote > > On both my 4.10 system (this one: tao) and one on my > > 5.3 platforms, I'm *finally* using jdk14. Can I free > > up the linux-sun-jdk14 binary and space and yet be > > able to build/rebuild everything Java?? > > Well, I can't say for sure. You have to make sure that your system is indeed > using the proper executable and the proper libs. If you have things mixed you > can have a serious problem. > > AFAIK everything is put in /compat/linux ... so deinstalling it wouldn't bring > in too much problem. However, unless you have serious disk space problems, I > can't see why risk to break stuff if it is not needed. > Thanks. On my laptop that's currently being ports-upgraded I have seen /compat/linux complaints (mostly re mozilla). I *think* future Java builds will work and java will work from the browser... but better to be safe than bashing my head :) gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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