ports/100529: linux-sun-jdk1.4.2_12 coredumps on FreeBSD 4.x

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Wed Jul 19 18:59:14 UTC 2006


Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:16:04PM +0000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>> Synopsis: linux-sun-jdk1.4.2_12 coredumps on FreeBSD 4.x
> 
> The two options are:
> 
> 1. Mark the port as ignore for FreeBSD 4.x (as per linux-sun-jdk15).
> 
> 2. Downgrade the port to 1.4.2_11.
> 
> Anyone have any strong opinions?  The first choice screws 4.x users, the
> latter choice may cause problems for people using linux-sun-jdk14 for
> anything other than bootstrapping.  If you're part of the latter group,
> please speak up.
> 

Downgrade the port to 1.4.2_11 for 4.x users only?  There's plenty of
precedent for that sort of thing in the ports.  Look at x11/nvidia-driver
for example.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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