Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 23:52:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Arvind Nahata <arvindnahata@yahoo.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.4 on FreeBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <20050906065230.7456.qmail@web50102.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050906064837.GA67958@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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Thanks for your quick response Jonathan! Unfortunately, the FreeBSD installation that I have doesn't have a /usr/ports directory itself. Any clues on - 1. Why dosen't my installation have a ports directory? 2. How can I get one and the ports/java/jdk14 directories, content? Thanks in advance! --- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:56:12PM -0700, Arvind > Nahata wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can someone please point me to the steps to > > downloading, installing and using JDK 1.4 on > FreeBSD > > 5.4? > > it's in the ports. This means that you should make > sure your ports tree > is up-to-date with cvsup, and then: > > # cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 > # make > <Follow instructions> > > You may have to do the previous command a couple of > times, but once the > build completes, you can then do a: > > # make install clean > > At which point, I suggest you then remove the > linux-jdk, linuxalator ports > which may have been installed as well. > > Cheers. > -- > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about > the remaining 3%? > ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/
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