Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:02:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-sun-jdk requirement Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10304152257170.216-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <C3C0161E-6F25-11D7-B423-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > I am a little confused about the relationship between the various JDKs > for FreeBSD. I understand that Sun has given the go ahead to FreeBSD > last year to make a native JDK available. So now we have a port called > "java/jdk13". (and other versions, but that is the one of interest to > me right now). > > But I have a couple of questions: > > * why does the installer require manual agreement to the license at > http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html? Because the jdk source patches are downloaded from here. The jdk source patches contain some Sun source code. > * and then again to fetch the actual JDK from Sun's site? Because the Sun jdk source is downloaded from here, plus the Sun linux jdk. > What was the effect of the agreement if in fact nothing at all is > downloaded from FreeBSD but it is all coming from Sun anyway? See > http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=2602 > > > And an even more important question. Why does the installation of > "java/jdk13" depend on the port "linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.07_1"? Because to build jdk1.4.1, you need a jdk1.4.x or better. Sun made it this way. Parts of the jdk1.4.1 source must be complied with a bootstrapping jdk. > I can't find any answers in the web pages and in fact the pages seem > quite contradictory. For example > <http://www.freebsd.org/java/install.html>; says that no dependencies > are needed to install the JDK. But when compiling the JDK I get this: ... Obviously there are dependencies on lots of things. jdk is big application. The archives do have answers though. Tomhelp
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