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From: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: State of JAVA support for FreeBSD?
Date: 30 Jan 1997 20:52:30 GMT
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In article <32F0FBBE.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
	Gunther Schadow <gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> what is the state of Java support on FreeBSD? Is there a port of
> the JDK environment, like compiler and debugger to FreeBSD? I guess
> the Linux ELF binaries won't run yet.

ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.11-26.tar.gz

This works on the 2.2 and presumably 3.0 branches of FreeBSD.  If I
understand previous postings correctly, with a couple tweaks to your
system it will run on some 2.1.x editions of FreeBSD, but someone else
will have to help out on what those tweaks might be.

The linux JDK also works on FreeBSD-2.2.

-john