Does Java work on DragonFly?

walt wa1ter at myrealbox.com
Mon Jul 17 22:40:22 PDT 2006


On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 06:03:42AM -0700, walt wrote:
> > The wip/jdk14 does work on DragonFly, but at the moment is a pain to
> > compile unless you can get the 1.4.2_11 linux binaries...

> Btw, you only need the linux JDK the first time.  Once you've compiled a
> native JDK, you can use that to recompile itself the next time.  The code
> is there in the Makefile, commented out:
>
> # Let an installed version of this package bootstrap a later version
> # (skips having to reinstall sun-jdk14 again)
> #
> #.if exists(${JVM_HOME}/LICENSE)
> #BUILD_DEPENDS+=                jdk14>=1
> #MAKE_ENV+=             ALT_BOOTDIR=${JVM_HOME}
> #.else
> BUILD_DEPENDS+=         sun-jdk14>=1:../../lang/sun-jdk14
> MAKE_ENV+=              ALT_BOOTDIR=${LOCALBASE}/java/sun-1.4
> #.endif

I just tried it and it works perfectly, thanks.






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