Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:51:46 +0000 From: "Weston M. Price" <wmprice@direcway.com> To: haney01@email.franklin.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux JDK 1.3 necessary to compile JDK 1.3.1 source from Sun? Message-ID: <200210071651.46681.wmprice@direcway.com> In-Reply-To: <3da1f074.5228.0@email.franklin.edu> References: <3da1f074.5228.0@email.franklin.edu>
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You can indeed just use the Linux JDK, or even better, you can install the port of the 1.4.1 jdk to get the latest and greatest JDK. However BE FORWARNED THERE ARE PROBLEMS WITH JAVA ON FREEBSD WITH ANY JDK THAT YOU USE. If you want to use an IDE other than emacs you may have some problems.....I found this aspect of FreeBSD maddening almost to the point of murder....Worse than this, most people on the FreeBSD questions list (or at least the one's that I see posting regularly) are not Java developers. The FreeBSD port of the JDK is incredibly fast because it is a native binary. With the Linux port you always are executing through an emulation library. However, since you are just starting out it really shouldn't make much of a difference. I would suggest install the JDK1.4.1 port. You can find this in /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk14 You will still have to download the binary file from Sun's site, put doing a make all install clean in the aforementioned directory will tell you where to get the file. Regards, Weston On Monday 07 October 2002 08:37 pm, Mark Haney wrote: > I'm learning Java, and would like to set up a Java > development environment on FreeBSD. In the article "Java > and Jakarta Tomcat on FreeBSD" > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/index.html > as well as one other article I came across, the instructions > say to first install the Linux JDK. Then, build the JDK 1.3.1 > source from SUN after downloading the patchset from > http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html > > Why is it necessary to install the Linux JDK before building the JDK from > source and the patchset? > > Can I just use the Linux JDK? > > Can I build from source and the patchset without first installing the Linux > version? > > Thanks for any help, > Mark > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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