Reasons to be cheerful:

[reddragdiva]

I GOT PAID!

(This almost makes up for spending three hours on a nominal one-hour bus journey I allowed two hours for ... not that I have anything to ahahaha do here in any case.)

So, I think it's Party Weekend. Marlborough Head then maybe Sluts meet Thursday, Tenebrae Friday, major shopping expedition Saturday. Who's going to MH, Sluts or Tenebrae?

Installing Sun Java on FreeBSD is not only a long-winded Pain In The Arse (source-available non-Free licence), but broke halfway through. Of course the 'native' FreeBSD Java pulls in the Linux Java and the Red Hat compatibility module! How could I have thought otherwise? Anyone know if Kaffe works worth shit yet?

Comments

[nekochef.livejournal.com]

mr hellsop alerted me you are in the process of discovering the joys of using Java under fBSD.

First the linux-jdk1.3 is pretty durn stable.
linux-jdk1.4 from what I've heard has a few problems.

the native jdk is only 1.2.2 and hasn't passed the compatibility tests, but people seem to like it (patchset 11 is current).

and to build a jdk you need another jdk, hence to build the native one you need either a previous version of the native jdk, or the linux one :)
[binaries for a native jdk cannot be distributed until the port passes the tests, legal/expensive crapola]

and no I haven't used kaffe.

hope this helps :)

[reddragdiva]

Thus proving that Proprietary Software is not merely Evil, but STUPID.

The bits that most impressed me were (1) the build process just dying half-way through when it couldn't find the Linux Java (I had the Red Hat 6 and 7 compat already installed) - that it didn't bother checking beforehand - and (2) the bit in the endless scrolling text which showed patch not recognising the BSD patchkit as valid patches for those files, and Doing Its Best.

Though if, as you say, the Linux Java is installed to validate the BSD Java, then the fact that it finished should mean the BSD Java does indeed work anyway. Shouldn't it?

[nekochef.livejournal.com]

yes it is very annoying.

However the port has been hand patched by the FreeBSD java team, no relation to Sun.

Sun is stupid in that they won't give out the JCK (test suite) for the JDKs without a license, and then only to a limited number of people (1 for fBSD) who are under NDA and can't use parts of the JCK for other engineers to use as test cases when attempting to fix problems.

and the linux jdk is not used to verify the native jdk, but the Compile parts of it, so I'm not sure what you have on your hands at this point.

[reddragdiva]

It appears it works well enough for my purposes, i.e. to provide Java support for my browsers. That'll do for now.

I have this sudden urge to do what I can for Kaffe, though.

[nekochef.livejournal.com]

yay! I like to see people sucessfully using java under fBSD (well ppl using fBSD in general makes me happy *g*)

gogogo! get kaffe to work by all means :)