Java on FreeBSD 5.0

[Tom Samplonius]

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