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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-16.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-hub.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-atl-21.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: JDK for FreeBSD Date: 16 Dec 1996 19:55:19 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5949f7$e77@helena.MT.net> References: <32AD41AC.41C67EA6@telusplanet.net> <591p59$3ph@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32716 In article <591p59$3ph@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: >james earl <james_earl@telusplanet.net> writes: >>I was wondering if someone could fill me in on what JDK to use for >>FreeBSD? The JDK-1.0.2 port used the sparc version from Sun rather than >>the x86; is this correct? After it installed the port, the binaries >>were nowhere to be found. (not(ice): I'm not to fluent with FreeBSD). Check out: freefall.freebsd.org:/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.11-26.tar.gz >With java the libraries are machine independant, this is what you >picked up from sun. You still need a "java virtual machine" to run >all the java libraries you got ( the java compiler is a java program, >you just need a virtual machine to run it on ). > >The person who ported a FreeBSD version of the virtual machine only >ported a version that works on FreeBSD-2.2 and up. [ That's the stuff mentioned above ] Actually, that's not *quite* true. I'm running it on a 2.1.* system w/out problems. I had to get a lib.so.3.0 from a -current system, but once I got that it ran great (I also had to make sure I was running the most recent version of XFree86, but it's available for both 2.1.* and 2.2). Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.mt.sri.com | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana (all the crazies are now in jail 'cept us home #: (406) 443-7063 | natives). - Fly fishing fanatic!