From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 05:05:27 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 CD48516A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 05:05:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outside.taborandtashell.net (sub18-33.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.18.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC0443D2F for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 05:05:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net) Received: (qmail 62512 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2005 21:05:23 -0800 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.9?) (tkelly@192.168.0.9) by 192.168.0.2 with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 15 Jan 2005 21:05:23 -0800 Message-ID: <41E9F612.5030901@taborandtashell.net> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:05:22 -0800 From: Tabor Kelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen References: <20050115210617.A20158@starfire.mn.org> <20050116041626.GB13042@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050116041626.GB13042@osiris.chen.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: John cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need a cuppa... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 05:05:27 -0000 Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: > >>OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed >>and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ, >>and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the >>latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get >>how to get Java support for FreeBSD. I don't need the JDK, unless >>that's the only way to get a viable JRE. > > > You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the > JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14. > > Cheers. But make sure you have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and obviously linux emulation). PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be safely removed. -- Tabor Kelly tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net http://tabor.taborandtashell.net