Tip for Intellij IDEA 3.0.5v2 with 1.4.1-p3

[David Bullock]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> On (2003/11/04 22:05), David Bullock wrote:
>
> > > Simply set the property
> > >
> > >    -Didea.no.jdk.check=true
> >
> > Argh.  I spoke too soon.  I'm now having trouble with a
> > missing class.  (Effect is not being able to open a project).
> > Should I be talking to the porting team about this, or to the
> > IDEA developers?  (nb. I will talk to IDEA, regardless ... since
> > I want them to make FreeBSD a supported platform ;-)
>
> IDEA builds a cache of JAR files.  The file copy method it used was
> broken in -p3, resulting in 0 byte JAR files in the cache.
>
> Look at the contents of ~/.IntelliJIdea/system/jars that this is your
> problem, then upgrade your JDK to -p4.
>
> If that's not your problem, are you sure you followed the
> idea-3.0.5/Install.txt instructions to the letter?  They're a bit weird,
> but worth following strictly.

Ah, now that I follow the installation instructions correctly, I
run into the problem you describe and fix.

Patchset 4 is available?!  http://www.freebsd.org/java/dists/14.html
doesn't mention it.  It'd be worth noting this fact there. :-)

I'll run off and compile it right now!

Many, many thanks,
David.