Installing the JDK without Xorg

[Pat Maddox]

I built it on an Athlon XP, couple years old, and I'm going to install
the jdk on a Barton machine.  So it should work if I install it as a
package...

On the other hand, it's a production server, so I imagine I should
probably just build it from scratch, just to be safe.


On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:08:47 +1030, Ian Moore <imoore at picknowl.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:29, Pat Maddox wrote:
> > Thanks for the help.  I got a suggestion on a forum to build it as a
> > package..."make MINIMAL=yes package"  I haven't created a package from
> > a port, so I'm not entirely sure what that'll do.  It installed Java
> > fine and left me with a bzip2 file.  Does this mean I can just copy
> > that file to any other machine I'm using and install Java as a
> > package, so I don't have to wait the long time for it to build?  Or
> > would it be better just to build it all on each machine anyway?
> >
> Yes, making a package means you can install that on other machines using
> pkg_add. This is a great idea, since you don't have to go through the agony
> of building the linux jdk again to bootstrap the compile on the other
> machine(s).
> One caveat - if you have make options that optimise the build for a particular
> processor, you may run into trouble running it on other processors.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ian
> 
> >
> > On 29 Jan 2005 09:56:11 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
> >
> > <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> > > Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> writes:
> > > > I've installed the native jdk14 successfully, but noticed that it
> > > > installed Xorg along with it.  I imagine that's a dependency for the
> > > > Java plugin or something.  I'm using this machine just as a test
> > > > server, I won't be using X at all, so I'd like to build jdk14 without
> > > > having to build and install Xorg as well.  Is it possible to do that?
> > >
> > > The actual dependency in the jdk14 port seems to be Open Motif, and
> > > there are no knobs to turn it off.  I'm not sure why that is; you may
> > > need to talk to the port authors (or try changing it yourself) to
> > > understand why it's required.
> >
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