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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 16:36:44 +0200
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jtroy@vt.edu
Subject: Re: About Java.
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On Thu, Jul 10, 1997 at 09:01:31AM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> there is a Java 1.0.2 and 1.1 port for FreeBSD, I thought I had kept the
> URL for the 1.1 port but I did not. The URL for the FreeBSD 1.1 port has
> been posted to the mailing list as well as comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.
> 
> A quick search of the mailling lists from the FreeBSD web page and dejanews
> did not find either reference to the URL.

Citing from your own mail:

   "for a JDK 1.1 port, check out:

    http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~kwhite/javaport.html

    --mark."
:-)
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't give you copy of the tar file because the web site
> that I download the tar file from has a usage license (as I remember correctly
> it was basically the same as Sun's usage license). I would suggest that you
> re-ask on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc for the URL or maybe you can be more
> successful in using the search engines than I was.
> 
> I did not install the pdksh shell for either 1.0.2 nor 1.1. I manually rewrote
> the bin/.java_wrapper to remove the "whence" and "[[" calls. 
> 
> The only problem I had with the JDK 1.1 package is that it REQUIRES
> the libc.so.2.2 library to be in /usr/lib (which is a problem if you
> are running FreeBSD 2.2.2 and this library is in /usr/lib/compat, I had to
> make a copy into /usr/lib to prevent constant core dumps).
> 
> --mark.

-- 
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de