Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:31:29 -0500 From: Stephen Cook <sclists@gmail.com> To: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openjdk-7.45.18_1 is forbidden: Triggering a nasty FreeBSD bug. Message-ID: <52C604E1.7020106@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <la4pbe$1da$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <52C5ADFB.9040207@gmail.com> <la4pbe$1da$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On 1/2/2014 5:31 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:20:43 -0500, Stephen Cook wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I'm trying to install OpenJDK and it gives me this error: >> openjdk-7.45.18_1 is forbidden: Triggering a nasty FreeBSD bug. >> >> I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and I'm not sure where to go from here. Can I >> try an earlier version or something? Googling it lead me to a pastebin >> page with mention of removing "FORBIDDEN" from the makefile if you know >> what you are doing, but unfortunately I don't. >> >> Or can anyone recommend some other Java port? My main purpose at the >> moment is to screw around with a Minecraft server, although I have some >> other more important (but less amusing) reasons to have Java on my >> system in the near future. >> > As a fellow newbie, my instinct is just to wait, rather than screwing > around. They don't usually take long, and I prefer to err on the side of > caution. > > BTW, someone mentioned openjdk6, but that's marked as forbidden too. > I can't find what the actual bug is... I mean, if it will just make Minecraft unstable it is no big deal, I want to play with my kid. If it erases the hard drive or lights something on fire I can wait.
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