Thanks for everyone's replies. Here is what I have learned:
Basically the 1.5 JDK is still alpha. There was a messages stating that in the compile, but I did not see it. The browser plugin is not included in the 1.5 JDK at this time.
The linux JDK is used to compile the native JDK because of a license issue, and not a technology issue.
Drew
Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
Andrew Hall wrote:
Greetings,
I have a few questions about jdk and 5.3.
1. If one does a src compile, it requires that the linux-sun-jdk to be installed to bootstrap the compile of native jdk.
Why would freebsd not use a binary version of it's own native jdk to bootstrap itself? If that's not feasible, then why would the jdk port not immediately remove all the linux crap that it installs if its not needed? If something is only temporary, then it should be removed immediately after use right :)?
Sun's licensing terms do not allow the distribution of a binary jdk. The FreeBSD Foundation pushed long and hard to get a license to distribute the diablo-jdk13. I don't know why there hasn't been a diablo-jdk14 released, but I can only assume it involves Sun.
2. Where did the browser plugin go? In 1.3 and 1.4 I symlinked /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so to what ever jdk I was using. For example:
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
But in 1.5 I don't see this .so, nor does the plugin directory even exist. Is there a new way I am not aware of?
The jdk1.5 port is very young, the patchset-1 was only announced on the 19th:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2005-January/003376.html
Plugin support was not included with this patchset. Please be patient, the jdk is big and the team porting it is very small.
3. Since the linux jdk is not necessary, is there an easy way to get a list of everything that was installed as the req for the native jdk compile so I may remove it all (and its deps)?
pkg_delete knows what to remove and will do as it's told if you pass the -f argument. Read the available documentation before proceeding.
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