openoffice and java on 5.2

[Odhiambo Washington]

* Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> [20040311 11:29]: wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:59:23PM -0800, peter lageotakes wrote:
> > 
> 	[ .. ]
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I believe that Sun's Java doesnt run on 5.x.  
> > 
> > "The current release of the JDK and JRE available via
> > the FreeBSD Foundation is 1.3.1. These binaries have
> > been tested and certified to run with FreeBSD
> > 4.8-RELEASE but may also work on other 4.x releases.
> > These binaries are not intended for use with FreeBSD
> > 5.x, due to a binary compatibility issue we are
> > working with the FreeBSD release engineering team to
> > resolve."
> > 
> > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > Pete
> > 
> 
> 	It does, thanks!  Saves me from beating my head against
> 	the concrete ... further:)
> 


I don't agree!
I am running OO in FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I installed the jdk14 from the
ports. It was installed in /usr/local:

[wash at beastie /usr/local]
 2$ ls -al
total 130
drwxr-xr-x   31 root      wheel      1024 10 Mar 12:01 .
drwxr-xr-x   18 root      wheel       512  2 Dec 08:59 ..
drwxrwxr-x   14 root      wheel      1024 23 Feb 09:28 InstallAnywhere_6_Enterprise
drwxr-xr-x    6 root      wheel       512 14 Dec 23:21 OpenOffice.org1.1.0
drwxr-xr-x    6 root      wheel       512 13 Dec 00:28 ant
drwxr-xr-x    5 www       wheel       512 10 Mar 12:01 atmail
drwxr-xr-x    2 root      wheel     28160 11 Mar 13:41 bin
drwxr-xr-x    2 root      wheel       512 20 Feb 08:28 cvsrooot
drwxr-xr-x    4 mailnull  bin         512 16 Dec 15:46 dccproc
drwxr-xr-x   24 root      wheel      2048 11 Mar 13:41 etc
drwxr-xr-x  108 root      wheel     18432 11 Mar 13:41 include
drwxr-xr-x    2 root      wheel      1024 26 Feb 12:03 info
drwxr-xr-x    8 root      wheel       512  3 Dec 16:56 j2re1.4.2_02
drwxr-xr-x    8 root      wheel       512 22 Nov 00:34 jdk1.4.2
drwxr-xr-x   12 wireless  wireless    512 16 Dec 14:05 kannel-1.3.1
drwxr-xr-x   37 root      wheel     28160 11 Mar 13:41 lib
drwxr-xr-x    6 root      wheel       512 26 Feb 08:04 libdata
drwxr-xr-x   12 root      wheel       512  5 Mar 10:18 libexec
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root      wheel         8 29 Nov 10:55 linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 -> jdk1.4.2
drwxr-xr-x    5 root      wheel       512 26 Nov 08:31 livecd
drwxr-xr-x    9 root      wheel       512  8 Nov 20:38 livefs
drwxrwsr-x   21 root      mailman     512  9 Jan 03:02 mailman
drwxr-xr-x   30 root      wheel      1024  6 Mar 04:19 man
drwxr-xr-x    6 oracle    oracle      512 21 Oct 18:39 oracle7
dr-x------    2 root      wheel       512 25 Sep 13:27 private
drwxr-xr-x    2 root      wheel      2048  9 Mar 17:34 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   77 root      wheel      1536  9 Mar 17:34 share
drwxr-xr-x    3 root      wheel       512 22 Sep 18:55 spamd
drwxr-xr-x    4 root      wheel       512  5 Mar 10:18 squid
drwxr-xr-x    4 root      wheel       512  1 Mar 17:13 svn
drwxr-xr-x    3 root      wheel       512 11 Nov 18:44 var
drwxr-xr-x    7 root      wheel       512  9 Mar 09:02 www
[wash at beastie /usr/local]
 3$ uname -a
FreeBSD beastie.wananchi.com 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1
#6: Wed Mar  3 11:20:00 EAT 2004 root at beastie.wananchi.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBEAST  i386


-Wash

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