JDK1.5 on FreeBSD 6.x / amd64

[Alexander Leidinger]

Andreas Krebs <akrebs at chronolabs.de> wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>> Most odd .. cd'd to the linux_base directory and it installed fine   
>> from there, so not sure why it failed the first time :(
> For some reason installing linux_base as a dependency on am64 fails
> (because it tries to install amd64.rpm). If you install linux_base
> directly first and java after sucessfull linux installation, it works.
>
> Dunno why the other approach doesn't work tho, my guess is that the
> build process passes the correct, but for linux wrong platform amd64 to
> some underlying install process.

Nearly right. bsd.port.mk makes the architecture variable read-only in  
submakes (at least this is the effect of what bsd.port.mk does). The  
linux_base-8 port tries to change this variable but fails.

Another workaround to the already found one would be to use the new  
fc3 linux base port as the default (OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=fc3 in  
make.conf), since it handles this differently than the default linux  
base port (which is scheduled to be replaced with the fc3 one <some  
unspecified amount of time> after the release of FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1).

Bye,
Alexander.

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