no longer need linux compat or linprocfs????

[Alexey Zelkin]

hi,

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:10:01PM -0500, Duane Winner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am going through our in house procecures for installing FreeBSD and 
> apps, as we are about to migrate to 5.3.
> 
> I just went through our Java chapter, and when I went to build the 
> native JDK 1.4, I forgot to mount linprocfs, which I thought I always 
> needed to do before; but the native JDK seemed to build successfully 
> anyway. Then I went one step further and tried it again by removing 
> Linux compatibility from my FreeBSD box, and native JDK still built with 
> any problems!
> 
> It seems like all you have to do anymore is copy the bsd-java tarball 
> and the three j2sdk tarballs to /usr/ports/distfiles and then run 
> "portinstall jdk"  -- is this correct, or am I spacing out about how we 
> needed set up Linux Compatibility and linprocfs in the past?
> 
> I just need some confirmation before I update our in-house documentation.

There's a patch in jdk14 port, which automatically take care of
linprocfs warnings (i.e. sliently gets rid of them without requiring
of manual intervention)