JDK ports questions

[Achilleas Mantzios]

Στις Wednesday 19 March 2008 16:32:46 ο/η Oliver Fromme έγραψε:
> Hi,
> 
> This might be a dumb question, but I'm going to ask it
> anyway.  :-)
> 
> What is the difference between ports/java/diablo-jdk15
> and ports/java/jdk15?  Which of them should be used?
ports/java/diablo-jdk15 is the ports way of installing the binary package,
you can do the same with pkg_add -r.
ports/java/jdk15 is about actually building from source.
> 
> So far I have only used the Sun-blessed binary package
> from the FreeBSD foundation download page, so I don't
> know much about the various ports.  However, those
> packages are now quite old, so I would like to build
> an up-to-date JDK for FreeBSD 7.  Which port should
> be used for that?
For FreeBSD 7.0, you will have to install misc/compat6x
> 
> Thanks for any insight!
> 
> Best regards
>    Oliver
> 



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