From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 13 11:48:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6665837B402; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:48:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16b5NS-0000wG-00; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:47:38 -0800 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:47:38 -0800 To: Daniel Eischen Cc: Greg Lewis , Alex , Andrew Reilly , Gunnar Flygt , FreeBSD Stable , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020213194738.GA3598@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <20020214053946.B60507@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i From: Bill Huey Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:40:20PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > But once you have it bootstrapped, you don't need the Linux > JDK port. Why don't you provide a native JDK as a bootstrap > and depend on that? It's just a formality. If you can look at the build environment and find the bootstrap variable, you can then make it point to the previously built native J2SE. > Take a look at ports/lang/gnat. You need an Ada compiler to > build the Ada compiler. I provide a native bootstrap compiler > so if the port builder doesn't have a previous Ada compiler > installed, it will download the bootstrap compiler and use it > (from the work directory, so it get's cleaned right along with > everything else). > > Dan Eischen It's not that hard to do. It might be cool to provide instructions for doing so, but it's up to a person with the free time to do this. [/me blasting an old Iron Maiden album... "Run To The Hills !!!!"] ;-) bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message