JDK1.5 on FreeBSD 6.x / amd64

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> Andreas Krebs <akrebs at chronolabs.de> wrote:
>
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>> 
>>> Most odd .. cd'd to the linux_base directory and it installed fine  from 
>>> there, so not sure why it failed the first time :(
>> For some reason installing linux_base as a dependency on am64 fails
>> (because it tries to install amd64.rpm). If you install linux_base
>> directly first and java after sucessfull linux installation, it works.
>> 
>> Dunno why the other approach doesn't work tho, my guess is that the
>> build process passes the correct, but for linux wrong platform amd64 to
>> some underlying install process.
>
> Nearly right. bsd.port.mk makes the architecture variable read-only in 
> submakes (at least this is the effect of what bsd.port.mk does). The 
> linux_base-8 port tries to change this variable but fails.
>
> Another workaround to the already found one would be to use the new fc3 linux 
> base port as the default (OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=fc3 in make.conf), since 
> it handles this differently than the default linux base port (which is 
> scheduled to be replaced with the fc3 one <some unspecified amount of time> 
> after the release of FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1).

Thx, have made that change now ...

----
Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664