Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:04:42 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need a cuppa... Message-ID: <20050116060442.GA847@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050115233404.B20530@starfire.mn.org> References: <20050115210617.A20158@starfire.mn.org> <20050116041626.GB13042@osiris.chen.org.nz> <41E9F612.5030901@taborandtashell.net> <20050115233404.B20530@starfire.mn.org>
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:34:04PM -0600, John wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote:
> > Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote:
> > >
> > >>OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed
> > >>and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ,
> > >>and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the
> > >>latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get
> > >>how to get Java support for FreeBSD. I don't need the JDK, unless
> > >>that's the only way to get a viable JRE.
> > >
> > >
> > > You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the
> > > JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14.
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> >
> > But make sure you have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and
> > obviously linux emulation).
> >
> > PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires
> > java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be
> > safely removed.
>
> Oh, my word! They don't make this easy, do they???
Blame Sun; they don't make it easy for organizations like FreeBSD
to release a binary version of Java.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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