Installing the JDK without Xorg

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat Jan 29 06:56:12 PST 2005


Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> writes:

> I've installed the native jdk14 successfully, but noticed that it
> installed Xorg along with it.  I imagine that's a dependency for the
> Java plugin or something.  I'm using this machine just as a test
> server, I won't be using X at all, so I'd like to build jdk14 without
> having to build and install Xorg as well.  Is it possible to do that?

The actual dependency in the jdk14 port seems to be Open Motif, and
there are no knobs to turn it off.  I'm not sure why that is; you may
need to talk to the port authors (or try changing it yourself) to
understand why it's required.


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