Ports, In devel/jdk/1.6 the instructions to get jdk-1_5_0_16-solaris-i586.tar.Z are a bit confusing because the site is a little vague. A little more detail would be nice, currently I am talking about these instructions to me the user from make install.
*** You must manually fetch the distribution files, place *** them in /usr/ports/distfiles and then run make again. *** Get the Update 16 Source under the JRL license file: *** jdk-1_5_0_16-fcs-src-b02-jrl-28_may_2008.jar and *** the Source Binaries needed for Source Build file: *** jdk-1_5_0_16-fcs-bin-b02-jrl-28_may_2008.jar *** from http://download.java.net/tiger/tiger_u16/ *** Get the BSD patchset file: *** bsd-jdk15-patches-9.tar.bz2 *** from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html *** Get JDK 5.0 Update 16 for Solaris x86 packages file: *** jdk-1_5_0_16-solaris-i586.tar.Z *** from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp or *** http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_16/index.html *** Get the Apache Xalan Java file: *** xalan-j_2_7_0-bin.tar.gz *** from http://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/xalan-j/ *** Error code 1 I'm sure I'll find it but this could be less time consuming. -- www.johntate.org