From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 00:06:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E7716A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 00:06:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A604043D2F for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 00:06:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0306cKj033269; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:06:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0306iag082883; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:06:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j0306g0i082882; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:06:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:06:41 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Jorn Argelo Message-ID: <20050103000641.GA82833@thought.org> References: <20050102211531.GA82339@thought.org> <20050102215027.M23111@wcborstel.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050102215027.M23111@wcborstel.nl> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: java question. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:06:48 -0000 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