JAVA and MOZILLA

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, David L wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I to am using Mozilla 1.4 ( I beleive I failed to mention that in my original
> post ) and I compiled it out of ports. I had heard that Java 1.3.1 worked
> well with Mozilla, so I wne to try to install it. However when I try I get
> the following.
>
> dl# cd /usr/ports/java/jdk13
> dl# ls
> Makefile        files           pkg-message     scripts
> distinfo        pkg-descr       pkg-plist       work
> dl# make package
> ===>  Building for jdk-1.3.1p8_2
> # Start of jdk build
> i386 Build started:   1.3.1-p8-n4458575-030909-18:44
> ERROR: Your BOOTDIR environment variable does not point
>        to a valid Java 2 SDK for bootstrapping this build.
>        A Java 2 SDK 1.3.1 build must be bootstrapped against any
>        1.3 build. Please update your ALT_BOOTDIR setting, or
>        just unset it, and start your build again.
You need some working linux-java (I think you can use blackdown
and sun but I can't remember which version) to build the FreeBSD
java-port . You could search your Makefile for this.

Uli.


>
> Exiting because of the above error(s).
> gmake: *** [sanity] Error 1
> *** Error code 2
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk13.
> dl#
>
> the make file in jdk13 has the following (I dont know if it of any relevence)
> MAKE_ENV=       ALT_BOOTDIR="${JDK13DIR}" \
>
> Did you have any of these issues when compiling jdk13?
> If you did, can you please let me know how you got around it.
>
> Thanks
>
> David
>
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