JDK1.5 on FreeBSD 6.x / amd64

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Mon Apr 10 18:38:59 UTC 2006


Am Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:45:21 -0300 (ADT)
schrieb "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org>:

> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> Thx, have made that change now ...

If you've already installed the default linux base port, this has no
effect...

Bye,
Alexander.

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