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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:05:22 -0800
From:      Tabor Kelly <tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I need a cuppa...
Message-ID:  <41E9F612.5030901@taborandtashell.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050116041626.GB13042@osiris.chen.org.nz>
References:  <20050115210617.A20158@starfire.mn.org> <20050116041626.GB13042@osiris.chen.org.nz>

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Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote:
> 
>>OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed
>>and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ,
>>and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the
>>latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get
>>how to get Java support for FreeBSD.  I don't need the JDK, unless
>>that's the only way to get a viable JRE.
> 
> 
> You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the
> JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14.
> 
> Cheers.

But make sure you have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and 
obviously linux emulation).

PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires 
java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be 
safely removed.

-- 

Tabor Kelly
tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net
http://tabor.taborandtashell.net



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