I need a cuppa...

[John]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 07:04:42PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:34:04PM -0600, John wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote:
> > > Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >>OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed
> > > >>and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ,
> > > >>and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the
> > > >>latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get
> > > >>how to get Java support for FreeBSD.  I don't need the JDK, unless
> > > >>that's the only way to get a viable JRE.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the
> > > > JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14.
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers.
> > > 
> > > But make sure you have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and 
> > > obviously linux emulation).
> > > 
> > > PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires 
> > > java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be 
> > > safely removed.
> > 
> > Oh, my word!  They don't make this easy, do they???
> 
> Blame Sun; they don't make it easy for organizations like FreeBSD
> to release a binary version of Java.

Yes - that was the "they" I meant...
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John Lind
john at starfire.MN.ORG