Yeah, Install a snapshot and put in a newer jdk. I'm using 1.7 with netbeans. Don't hate the OpenBSD, Love the OpenBSD. Brandon
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:07 PM, macintoshzoom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On OpenBSD 4.3, to build Java to run, say, Jondos anonymizer, latest > port seems jre-1.4.2p15, .... it requires 2004? (out)dated distfiles as > *** j2sdk-1_4_2-src-scsl.zip > *** j2sdk-1_4_2-bin-scsl.zip > .. > > Is this sane when everybody knows how buggy and unsafe is Java (see > Secunia.com ) ????? > > Can I go ahead for a top secure Java or may I have to forget Java on > OpenBSD (by the moment)??????? > > Lots of years playing with OpenBSD, and sometimes I still feel as the > latest idiot on earth when trying to install Java: Obsolete, No port, no > package, distfiles nearly impossible to find at sun.com sites, (try to > search j2sdk-1_4_2-src-scsl.zip at the searchbox from sun.com, no > results), bsd-jdk14-patches-8.tar.gz from http://www.eyesbeyond.com > requires to leave your fingerprints because it uses javascript, really, > really an exasperating experience. > Why not a simple script to install, opening a simple lynx browser w¡hen > required (license notifications and the like), as everyone (0S) else > does (that fails also in the non redistributable trick), is this so > difficult? > > And after all that shit, I am ending with an obsolete and buggy unsafe > java, that I want to run ultrasecure software! > > Sorry guys, some days I hate OpenBSD. > > Cab anyone give me some consolation words? (or any tip to compile latest > java) > >
