From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 22:31:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA16919 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 22:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xi.omniscient.com (root@moon-c25.aa.net [204.157.220.125]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA16913 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 22:31:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (smpatel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xi.omniscient.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01355; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 22:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 22:30:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Sujal Patel X-Sender: smpatel@xi.omniscient.com To: Vlad cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: javac, jdk etc In-Reply-To: <199608290435.XAA01960@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Vlad wrote: > (1) I install all three ports (netscape3, jdk-1.0.2, and javac_netscape) > with little trouble (I have to modify the Makefiles for netscape3 port to > have the latest version of netscape as well as java_30 instead of moz...what- > ever.zip installed). Netscape as a browser runs Ok, I can see applets (including > some I've written myself in Solaris JDK), but javac always fails with this > message: > Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread The javac_netscape port hasn't actually worked correctly since early Netscape 3.0 betas or Netscape 2.0(2?) > (2)Is JDK really necessary ? Why are the files installed by jdk port > required, seeing that they are for Solaris after all ? The files that it installs from the Solaris JDK are needed, they are actually interpreted by the Java virtual machine. Instead of using javac_netscape (unless you dig up a version of Netscape that works), I would suggest you get the "kaffe" port. It will allow you to do what you want (but it still has some bugs). Sujal