On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Erling Westenvik < [email protected]> wrote:
> When attempting to install JDK 1.6 from ports, the ports system states: > > *** Get the BSD patchset file: > *** bsd-jdk16-patches-4.tar.bz2 > *** from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk16.html > > However, over the last two days the above webserver has complained about > "internal errors" when attempting to download, and today the domain > appears to be unavailable due to DNS failure. Are there other "safe" > download locations for this file? > > Also: the FAQ on how to install JDK seem to me to be out of date? > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#Programming: > > 1) JDK 1.5 is not in ports anymore? > 2) One is not required to visit SUN's website, just to put > "ACCEPT_JRL_LICENSE=Yes" in /etc/mk.conf? > > Cheers, > > Erling > > very good catches, the whole "Building the Sun JDK" section needs to be revamped. lang/kaffe and any jdk < 1.6 is history. The current procedure is to use gcj 4.6 and using ecj.jar to build jdk1.6 and then use 1.6 to build 1.7 while there... Nick/anybody, the following lines mentioning these specific ports can be removed. lint() Amaya (for 5.3 release and now also since it was broken for so many years) netsurf XXXTerm renamed to Xombrero Retawk renamed to retawq
