linux-sun-jdk requirement

[Aristedes Maniatis]

I am a little confused about the relationship between the various JDKs 
for FreeBSD. I understand that Sun has given the go ahead to FreeBSD 
last year to make a native JDK available. So now we have a port called 
"java/jdk13". (and other versions, but that is the one of interest to 
me right now).

But I have a couple of questions:

* why does the installer require manual agreement to the license at 
http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html?
* and then again to fetch the actual JDK from Sun's site?

What was the effect of the agreement if in fact nothing at all is 
downloaded from FreeBSD but it is all coming from Sun anyway? See 
http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=2602


And an even more important question. Why does the installation of 
"java/jdk13" depend on the port "linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.07_1"?

I can't find any answers in the web pages and in fact the pages seem 
quite contradictory. For example 
<http://www.freebsd.org/java/install.html> says that no dependencies 
are needed to install the JDK. But when compiling the JDK I get this:

===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for jdk-1.3.1p8_1
===>   jdk-1.3.1p8_1 depends on executable: gm4 - found
===>   jdk-1.3.1p8_1 depends on executable: zip - found
===>   jdk-1.3.1p8_1 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so - found
===>   jdk-1.3.1p8_1 depends on file: 
/usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.3.1/bin/javac - not found



This is all on FreeBSD 4.7.

Ari Maniatis



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