can't get there from here

[Greg Lewis]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:23:19PM +0000, Chuck Robey wrote:
> It appears that I have hint one more roadblock in trying to build java 
> on the amd64, so I'd appreciate a suggestion.  I will gladly try things, 
> and I won't jump on you if you guess wrong, so help, if you can.
> 
> The current problem is, I can't build jdk14 directly, it's broken for 
> amd64.  I can't build jdk15 directly, it needs a jdk14 bootstrap.  The 
> only bootstrap that's available is the Linux java, but the Linux java 
> (at least the Sun one) needs the Linux_base -8 port, and that's only 
> available for the i386, I can't get it for the amd64.

Update your ports tree:

> grep ONLY_FOR_ARCHS /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/Makefile
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=         i386 amd64

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