FreeBSD 5.2.1. - JDK 1.4 installation from ports collection

[David Pullara]

As I understand it you need the linux jdk to build the native one.
I noticed I got that same "can't detect" error when running the linux
java before I switched to the native one.  However, before I switched
I found these instructions either from this mailing list or with a
google search:

   # kldload linprocfs
   # mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc

Once I did that I didn't get that warning anymore.

So if I'm understanding this correctly and after looking at the
file, CurrencyData.java seems to be generated by a java program;
maybe they redirect the output to a file, hence that warning
showing up in the source.  So maybe the solution is to do the
above commands before building the native jdk?  (Maybe the build
scripts can check for that, if that is a good idea?)

d

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Hofer [mailto:christian.hofer at gmx.de] 
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 3:12 PM
To: freebsd-java at freebsd.org
Subject: BUG: FreeBSD 5.2.1. - JDK 1.4 installation from ports collection

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/Curren
cyData.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/Curre
ncyData.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/Currency
Data.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