JDK ports questions

[Greg Lewis]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 05:55:44PM +0200, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> ???????? Wednesday 19 March 2008 17:34:01 ??/?? Oliver Fromme ????????????:
> > Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> >  > Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >  > > What is the difference between ports/java/diablo-jdk15
> >  > > and ports/java/jdk15?  Which of them should be used?
> >  > 
> >  > ports/java/diablo-jdk15 is the ports way of installing the
> >  > binary package, you can do the same with pkg_add -r.
> > 
> > I see.  So I basically get the same result as downloading
> > the package from freebsdfoundation.org (which is not what
> > I want).
> > 
> > Thanks for answering!
> > 
> >  > > So far I have only used the Sun-blessed binary package
> >  > > from the FreeBSD foundation download page, so I don't
> >  > > know much about the various ports.  However, those
> >  > > packages are now quite old, so I would like to build
> >  > > an up-to-date JDK for FreeBSD 7.  Which port should
> >  > > be used for that?
> >  > 
> >  > For FreeBSD 7.0, you will have to install misc/compat6x
> > 
> > But it's only required for the bootstrap, right?
> > I.e. when I have built the JDK successfully, I don't
> > need compat6x anymore, I assume.
> > 
> 
> No, the diablo-jdk1.5.0 executable depends on 
> /usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.2 which is in compat6x-i386
> 
> Bootstrap issues exist when you need e.g. a linux jdk in order to compile
> the java classes of the FreeBSD native port. In that case you install the
> linux-jdk-whatever, build/install the native port, pkg_deintall the linux-jdk-...
> 
> For some reason, now that i look at it, compat6x is not recorded as
> a prerequisite for diablo-jdk1.5.0,

If you installed with the packages from the Foundation site rather than
the port then those packages were rolled on a 6.x machine before 7.0
existed, so naturally they wouldn't have that dependency.

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