From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 19:18:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69FF16A4CF for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:18:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E83643D45 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:18:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F2AFD020; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:18:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41F549FA.3090409@locolomo.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:18:18 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041114 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Hall References: <41F53D9A.5020408@corp.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <41F53D9A.5020408@corp.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.5 and 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:18:22 -0000 Andrew Hall wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a few questions about jdk and 5.3. > > 1. If one does a src compile, it requires that the linux-sun-jdk to be > installed to bootstrap the compile of native jdk. > > Why would freebsd not use a binary version of it's own native jdk to > bootstrap itself? If that's not feasible, then why would the jdk port > not immediately remove all the linux crap that it installs if its not > needed? If something is only temporary, then it should be removed > immediately after use right :)? 1) I think you are touching into the licence discussion that appeared recently. 2) yes you can deinstall the linux binaries. New question: Can one upgrade jdk without installing the linux binaries again? Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2