Having Some Trouble with Java on FreeBSD

[N Deepak]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:06:16PM -0600, Franklin E. Powers, Jr. wrote:
> 
> So I tinkered with that a bit and I discovered that the almost 
> complete native build for FreeBSD could run.  So I decided to try to 
> finish the build process, by getting it to build itself.  But it 
> suffered a slightly different error.
> 
> So...  Then I went through the documentation for FreeBSD some more 
> and decided to start over by reinstalling the Linux Java using:
> 	cd /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk15
> 	make install clean
> 
> But now I get the following error: linux-sun-jdk-1.5.0.01,2 does not 
> run (core dumps: Bad System Call).  Note that previously I manually 
> installed it by simply downloading the Linux version on another 
> computer, transfering it over to the computer, and executing the file.
> 
Try with /usr/ports/java/jdk14 (native JDK 1.4 for FreeBSD).  It worked
for me.  I am running FreeBSD 5.4 STABLE.

Regards,
Deepak