Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:09:41 +0100 From: Daniel Tourde <daniel.tourde@spray.se> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to build sun-jdk-1.5 from the source? Message-ID: <200702192009.42715.daniel.tourde@spray.se> In-Reply-To: <20070219182520.GA41258@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200702191920.46356.daniel.tourde@spray.se> <20070219182520.GA41258@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Hello, > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:20:45PM +0100, Daniel Tourde wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is it possible to build sun-jdk-1.5 from the source code? > > If yes, how to do that? > > Yes, use the port. > > > To be honest, I would like to avoid to install a binary that requires > > Linux support packages. It's not that I do not like Linux (I have 3 > > Gentoo Linux at my disposal), it's simply that my machine is a FreeBSD > > machine and I would like to keep it as simple as possible. > > Unfortunately java is written in java so you will have to install a > binary compiler (either linux or freebsd) first to bootstrap. OK. Where could I find the FreeBSD binary? Are you referring to: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml ? Then, would the binary be replaced by the one compiled or would they be in parallel on my system? Daniel
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