Installation Questions (JDK on FreeBSD 4.9)

[Duane Winner]

Thanks twice!

Once regarding JDK.

And twice because you made me realize that I never had an up-to-date
ports collection since starting with FreeBSD due to the fact that  I
didn't add "ports-all tag=." in my supfile.

Cheers,
Duane


On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:38, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> Hi Duane,
> 
> 
> > I see that the latest patchset for 1.3.1 is '9', not '8'. How do I
> > compile with patchset 9?
> 
> Do the following:
> - Use CVSup to update your ports collection.
> - Confirm that the java/jdk13 port is now patchset 9
> - Install the port sysutils/portupgrade if you don't have it yet
> - Do 'portupgrade jdk' to upgrade jdk13 to patchset 9
> 
> > It looked like if I just edit the Makefile in /usr/ports/java/jdk13 and
> > change the line "JDK_PATCHSET_VERSION=" to '9', that would do it, but
> > apparently not. What else must I do to it to compile with patchset 9?
> > (I tried w/ NO_CHECKSUM="yes", but that still didn't do it -- I see that
> > distinfo has the MD5 checksums for j2sdk-1_3_1-src.tar.gz and
> > bsd-jdk131-patches-8.tar.gz)
> 
> If you would have done a 'make makesum' as well you would have got one step 
> further, but then perhaps something changed in the port itself as well, so 
> you would miss out on that with that kind of approach.
> 
> > And can anybody tell me exactly what the 'real' story and status of JDK
> > on FreeBSD is? Should I even be concerned about patchset 9? Is it
> 
> As far as I know, JDK 1.3.1 patchset 9 is considered to be stable.
> >From my experience, so is JDK 1.4.2 patchset 5. I switched over from JDK 
> 1.3.x to 1.4.x a few months ago. But since I'm currently not running it in 
> a production environment, I'm really not the one to ask. On my workstation 
> it works like a charm though, with my daily Ant and Orion work.
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD 4.x still, but both 4.x and 5.x branches are supported. 
> Some features, like SMP-friendly threading, seems to work only on 5.x, 
> though.
> 
> Just my EUR 0.02...
> 
> 
> Ernst
> 
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