BUG: FreeBSD 5.2.1. - JDK 1.4 installation from ports collection

[Christian Hofer]

Hi,

I installed the JDK 1.4 from the ports collection into FreeBSD 5.2.1, 
with cvsup'ed java-ports.

The installation fails. Searching the list, I see that obviously this 
already happened to other people.  The error message is something like 
this (I included it from another post):

 >/usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-?>i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1:
 >'class' or 'interface' expected

>/Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect
/>/initial thread stack 
/>/location
/>/^
/>//usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd->i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1:
/
>/unclosed character literal
/>/Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect
/>/initial thread stack 
/>/location
/                                       ^
>/2 errors
/>/gmake[4]: *** [.compile.classlist] Error 1
/>/gmake[4]: Leaving directory
/>/`/usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/j2se/make/java/java'
/>/gmake[3]: *** [optimized] Error 2
/>/gmake[3]: Leaving directory
/>/`/usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/j2se/make/java/java'
/>/gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 1
/>/gmake[2]: Leaving directory
/>/`/usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/j2se/make/java'
/>/gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 1
/>/gmake[1]: Leaving directory
/>/`/usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/j2se/make'
/>/gmake: *** [j2se-build] Error 2
/>/*** Error code 2
/>/
/>/Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14.

Workaround:
Robert Corsaro posted the following workaround (subject //usr/ports/java/jdk14 on 25 March):
> I had the same problem and found the offensive file
> (/usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java)
> and deleted the first line, which was :
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack

This seems to work also with my installation. The compilation continued successfully afterwards.
I didn't test, if the class CurrencyData is now working correctly.

Chris