From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 14 8: 0:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.isltd.insignia.com (gatekeeper.isltd.insignia.com [195.217.222.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67C437B424 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saracen.isltd.insignia.com (saracen.isltd.insignia.com [193.112.17.171]) by gatekeeper.isltd.insignia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA10030; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:35:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from luggage.isltd.insignia.com (luggage.isltd.insignia.com [193.112.17.47]) by saracen.isltd.insignia.com (8.8.4/BSCF-1.2) with SMTP id PAA01063; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:35:47 +0100 (BST) From: Martin Hopkins MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14784.57922.612692.949082@luggage.isltd.insignia.com> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:35:46 +0100 (BST) To: behanna@zbzoom.net Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Java v1.3 JDK/JRE for FreeBSD v4.x In-Reply-To: References: <200009130045.SAA25992@nomad.yogotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Chris" == Chris BeHanna writes: Chris> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Nate Williams wrote: >> > In dealing with the Netscape issue, I was reminded of the latest Java >> > implementation on v1.3 of the JDK/JRE. Has there been effort to >> > add Java JDK/JRE v1.3 to -current or possible -STABLE?!? >> >> Because Java is not open-source, it will never become a default part of >> the FreeBSD OS. >> >> An external port of JDK1.2.2 is in the works, to be followed by a JDK1.3 >> release. Followups to freebsd-java. Chris> Just FYI (and I won't continue in this forum), but I've Chris> semi-successfully gotten IBM JDK 1.3.0 for Linux to run on FreeBSD Chris> 4.1-STABLE. I've had no luck at all with Sun's version, which is Chris> pretty much hard-wired to run on RedHat, period. It won't even run on Chris> Slackware. Are you refering to Sun's jdk-1.3-RC1. If so I downloaded the sh archive last night and it seems to run on 4.1-STABLE (very limited testing).. I do get a "cannot uninstall alt signal stack warning" on exit. The only thing I've changed is --- bin/.java_wrapper~ Mon Aug 28 08:36:50 2000 +++ bin/.java_wrapper Wed Sep 13 19:35:08 2000 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#!/bin/sh +#!/compat/linux/bin/sh # # @(#)java_wrapper_linux.sh 1.8 00/05/19 Are you refering to the RPM distribution? Martin -- Martin Hopkins | martin.hopkins@insignia.com Insignia Solutions Plc, | martin@uk.freebsd.org The Mercury Centre, Wycombe Lane | Tel: (+44) 1628 539537 Wooburn Green, Bucks, HP10 0HH, UK. | Fax: (+44) 1628 539501 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message