On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 07:53:16PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, 2006-Nov-02 19:27:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I never said it was broken, just that the jre in the ports collection was. > >It seems to be looking for something other than itself when you attempt a > >make. Under the circumstances it seems it should be removed? > > ports/java/jre is Java 1.1.8 - which is positively ancient. It is no > longer possible to build it because it depends on FreeBSD 3.x binaries > which in turn rely on the compax3x port which is forbidden due to > multiple security vulnerabilities. > > Yes, it probably should be deleted. There are a number of ports in > a similar condition and they are being cleansed as a low-priority > task by at least one committer.
All JDK/JREs earlier than 1.3 need to die. I just haven't had the time to do it yet. -- Greg Lewis Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
