JDK1.5 on FreeBSD 6.x / amd64

[Marc G. Fournier]

Actually, I ended up doing a 'make package' on the base server of a 
slightly more powerful amd64 server we have, then doing the pkg_add within 
the Jail itself ...

thx

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> Am Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:45:21 -0300 (ADT)
> schrieb "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org>:
>
>> 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 ...
>
> If you've already installed the default linux base port, this has no
> effect...
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.
>
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