Hello All,
I don't know if anyone else had/has a need for Java 1.4 (I need it to be
able to use the Geronimo application server).
But, I tried to install the binary of Java 1.4.2_10 on the SVN version
of LFS from 11/13.
I ran into two problems:
The first is that appearantly the syntax for the tail command has been
changed to remove an ambiguity. The java package uses the command:
tail +511 $0 > filename
An error comes up because tail now requires the '-n' to remove ambiguity
of whether the +511 is actually the file you want to examine. So the
necessary command would be:
tail -n +511 > filename
The second problem is with the checksum. The script is using the
'/usr/bin/sum' command to check whether the file just created with the
above tail command matches the expected values. It does not. The
checksum is different even though the number of blocks comes out the same.
To be able to install java 1.4.2 I had to edit the script to have the
new calculated checksum and the '-n' switch. Has anyone else tried to
install java 1.4.2 or has everyone else moved on to java 1.5?
Jay
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