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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: State of JAVA support for FreeBSD? Date: 31 Jan 1997 17:19:35 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5ct9j7$edq@helena.MT.net> References: <32F0FBBE.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <5cr1me$lau@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34796 In article <5cr1me$lau@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu>, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> wrote: >[Posted and mailed] > >In article <32F0FBBE.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de>, [ JDK on FreeBSD ] >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. Copy /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0 from a 2.2/3.0 system into /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0 (it must be there unfortunately) on your older box and it'll work great. I've beat on the code, and other than some Date.toString() bugs I've encountered it's pretty much as robust as the JDK on Solaris Sun provides. (Which means it has the same bugs, including 8-bit only support, etc..) Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations work #: (406) 457-9000 | nate@trout.mt.sri.com | An unfeatured document is a bug. home #: (406) 443-7063 | - John Polstra