On (2003/03/19 20:43), Andrew Mace wrote: > Thanks for Your reply. Your right, I'm in the wrong league here :-). I had > 5.0 RELEASE installed before, but the jdk1.4 port wouldn't compile and there > is no binary package. But now that I have it compiled and packaged can I just > install it on 5.0 RELEASE or even 4.7 STABLE?
No. The native jdk1.4.1 depends on a threads support change in libc that was committed after 5.0-RELEASE. You _really_ don't want to upgrade libc to 5.0-CURRENT without upgrading the rest of the system. You could, however, just apply the patch concerned [1] and rebuild world from the 5.0-RELEASE sources. Personally, I'd just update to -CURRENT and enjoy a host of bugfixes, at the risk of catching it at a bad time. You can minimize that risk by using the same FreeBSD source that you used to produce the host environment that successfully built the java/jdk14 port's package, because you've seen it in action. Ciao, Sheldon. [1] You'd have to hunt the freebsd-java mailing list archives for "the libc_r patch", which shouldn't be too hard to find. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message