Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:31:39 +0100 From: Kay Abendroth <kay.abendroth@raxion.net> To: Michael Matczynski <mjm@alum.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java on FreeBSD 4.8 Message-ID: <4549C90B.20700@raxion.net> In-Reply-To: <fd1b39eb0611011130n76577c05oecd4e4a544789d90@mail.gmail.com> References: <fd1b39eb0611011033m752af377xaae34267ce29feb0@mail.gmail.com> <fa47cf900611011057m22c998f0y2cdf6eea36d40ead@mail.gmail.com> <4548EFE8.9070705@raxion.net> <fd1b39eb0611011130n76577c05oecd4e4a544789d90@mail.gmail.com>
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Michael Matczynski wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt replies!
>
> The system I'm working on doesn't grant access to /usr/ports. Is it
> possible to obtain the jdk14 package and build in a local directory?
>
[...]
Well, without /usr/ports it will be difficult:
1.) Since you have to deal with 4.8 you can't use
Java JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 7 binaries from
www.freebsdfoundation.org .
2.) So you have to built from source and this means
bootstrap.
3.) Bootstrapping means Linux support on your FreeBSD-
machine. Does your machine have Linux-Emulation
enabled[1]? If the answer is no here, and you can't
turn it on (which I believe since you have no
access to /usr/ports), you can't install Java.
4.) Otherwise you probably should download [2] and build/
install everything needed in your home directory.
Make sure you set the following make variables to
suite your special situation:
PORTSDIR (e.g. /usr/home/max/ports)
DESTDIR (e.g. /usr/home/max/test).
Since I never tried that, I can't say for sure, if it works.
Good luck ;-)
Kay
[1] For instance output of `df` should contain a line like this:
linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc
[2] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports-stable/ports.tar.gz
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