Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:44:05 -0700 From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing the JDK without Xorg Message-ID: <810a540e05012914441d05cd4c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200501300908.55411.imoore@picknowl.com.au> References: <810a540e050128145658f81cb8@mail.gmail.com> <44is5g1dys.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <810a540e05012906594443fad2@mail.gmail.com> <200501300908.55411.imoore@picknowl.com.au>
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I built it on an Athlon XP, couple years old, and I'm going to install the jdk on a Barton machine. So it should work if I install it as a package... On the other hand, it's a production server, so I imagine I should probably just build it from scratch, just to be safe. On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:08:47 +1030, Ian Moore <imoore@picknowl.com.au> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:29, Pat Maddox wrote: > > Thanks for the help. I got a suggestion on a forum to build it as a > > package..."make MINIMAL=yes package" I haven't created a package from > > a port, so I'm not entirely sure what that'll do. It installed Java > > fine and left me with a bzip2 file. Does this mean I can just copy > > that file to any other machine I'm using and install Java as a > > package, so I don't have to wait the long time for it to build? Or > > would it be better just to build it all on each machine anyway? > > > Yes, making a package means you can install that on other machines using > pkg_add. This is a great idea, since you don't have to go through the agony > of building the linux jdk again to bootstrap the compile on the other > machine(s). > One caveat - if you have make options that optimise the build for a particular > processor, you may run into trouble running it on other processors. > > Cheers, > Ian > > > > > On 29 Jan 2005 09:56:11 -0500, Lowell Gilbert > > > > <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > > > Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> writes: > > > > I've installed the native jdk14 successfully, but noticed that it > > > > installed Xorg along with it. I imagine that's a dependency for the > > > > Java plugin or something. I'm using this machine just as a test > > > > server, I won't be using X at all, so I'd like to build jdk14 without > > > > having to build and install Xorg as well. Is it possible to do that? > > > > > > The actual dependency in the jdk14 port seems to be Open Motif, and > > > there are no knobs to turn it off. I'm not sure why that is; you may > > > need to talk to the port authors (or try changing it yourself) to > > > understand why it's required. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- > Ian > GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc > > >
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