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Date:      Sun, 27 Apr 2003 12:49:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Java on FreeBSD 5.0
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10304271247050.216-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <FE2B7C83-75F5-11D7-83F4-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:

...
> You need to install the linux JDK first, because is is required to 
> build the FreeBSD JDK from source. Even though 
> http://www.freebsd.org/java/newsflash.html says that the native JDK 
> will be available in January 2002 it doesn't appear that this is yet 
> available.

  I think it was a bad idea to annouce a Java JDK port before Sun has
signed off on it.  Besides, this upcoming native FreeBSD JDK is almost
certainly going to be 1.3.1, and therfore can't be used to bootstrap a jdk
1.4.1 compile anyhow.

> Ari Maniatis


Tom



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