java for 5.3 please

Thomas Duffey tduffey at homeboyz.org
Wed Dec 22 13:06:46 PST 2004


Hi Jeff,

Jeff Mohney wrote:

>I do not have linux emulation nor am I skilled enough to emulate
>linux, install linux jvm/jdk, build natively, and then remove linux
>emulation from my OS.
>  
>
What happens when you do this?

# cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14
# make
...follow instructions...
# make install

That's all I did on my latest 5.3 machine and although it took a while 
and required downloading some files by hand, everything worked fine in 
the end.

Good Luck,

Tom Duffey


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