Re: JDK on freebsd?

From: Matthew Seaman (m.seaman_at_infracaninophile.co.uk)
Date: 06/24/03

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To: "Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent" <ardent@nebcorp.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

    On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:42:21PM -0700, Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent wrote:
    > Marco Trentini wrote:
    > >
    > > Vincent Chen wrote:
    > > > Hi, all
    > > >
    > > > I need a jsp engine on freebsd. One installation on
    > > > linux from my office works great so far. What's the
    > > > status and how stable JDK are on freebsd? Which jdk
    > > > version will you recommend? Is there any ready-to-go
    > > > package available or I must build it from port?
    > >
    > > There is a article suitable for this topic:
    > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/index.html
    > >
    > This is really fairly rediculous; is this the native FBSD JDK:
    >
    > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/x35.html ?
    >
    > Why the dependancy on the Linux JDK? Why bother with a "native" JDK if
    > you need the Linux one, anyway, and can run it instead (via the
    > already-required Linux compatibility)?

    You need a linux JDK to do the first time installation of the native
    JDK -- both for jdk13 and jdk14. Once you've got a native jdk
    compiled and installed, you can pkg_delete the linux jdk, and use the
    native jdk to compile updated versions of itself (via the
    NATIVE_BOOTSTRAP=yes make flag). One of the really annoying things
    about java is that you can't compile and install JDK 1.4.1 using any
    flavour of JDK 1.3.1, so if you want both JDK versions, you've got to
    go through the whole install process from scratch each time.

    You need linux-compat as one of the linux JDK's dependencies. Once
    you have dispensed with the linux JDK you could probably dispense with
    the whole linux compat stuff as well. The native JDK works just fine
    without.

    On the other hand, if you've got a whole row of machines to install
    jdk's on, so long as you aren't in any sense publishing an
    unauthorized-by-Sun JDK, there's nothing to stop you going through the
    download, install linux jdk, download, compile, install native jdk
    rigmarole on just one of the machines, and then build your own package
    of the native jdk to install on the other boxes.

            Cheers,

            Matthew 

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