Re: JAVA for FreeBSD

From: Lars Eighner (eighner_at_io.com)
Date: 11/29/04


Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 04:56:34 -0600

In our last episode, <coesba$1bno$1@news.LF.net>, the lovely and talented
Kurt Jaeger broadcast on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:

> In article <pan.2004.11.29.09.08.00.659957@yahoo.co.uk>,
> Charles Prince <s_p_a_m_t_r_a_p@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>I am trying to find a java development environment for FreeBSD but cannot
>>find anything that specifically says it is for FreeBSD.

> Look in the ports, /usr/ports/java/jdk14.

> This one uses a linux JDK for bootstrapping, after that it's
> standalone, 100% java, 100% fbsd.

for that reason be sure to load linuxprofs and mount it

kldload linuxprocfs && mount -t linuxprofs linuxprofs /compat/linux/proc

before.

> One reason for this "indirect" approach is that the java license
> does not allow FreeBSD to automatically provide pre-compiled jdk stuff.

> It's a license issue, not a technical one.

>>Is it true that there is no native JAVA support for FreeBSD?

> No, that's not true.

-- 
Lars Eighner -finger for geek code-  eighner@io.com http://www.io.com/~eighner/
       Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats.  -- O'Neill


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