From owner-freebsd-java Wed Mar 3 13:22:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0681214F6F for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA16822; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:21:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA14409; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:21:43 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:21:43 -0700 Message-Id: <199903032121.OAA14409@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Nate Williams , chuckr@mat.net, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AOUT/ELF In-Reply-To: <72703.920495981@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <199903032113.OAA14340@mt.sri.com> <72703.920495981@axl.noc.iafrica.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I have two copies of the JDK now, one I downloaded earlier this year > > under the 'educational' license, and the one I downloaded here. > > I'm a little disappointed about the requirement for an existing > installation of the jdk for bootstrapping. Since the 'java compiler' is written in Java, this is pretty much a requirement. It's kind of like how do you build a C compiler w/out a C-compiler? > I presume the jdk out of the ports tree will suffice for this purpose? ???? If not, I assume you could use jikes with a little bit of work, since recent version are supposed to be JDK2 compliant. Nate > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message