I need a cuppa...

[Tabor Kelly]

Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote:
> 
>>OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed
>>and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ,
>>and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the
>>latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get
>>how to get Java support for FreeBSD.  I don't need the JDK, unless
>>that's the only way to get a viable JRE.
> 
> 
> You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the
> JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14.
> 
> Cheers.

But make sure you have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and 
obviously linux emulation).

PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires 
java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be 
safely removed.

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Tabor Kelly
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