Re: Java 2 on NetBSD

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

"Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg%crufty.net@localhost> writes:
> 1.3.1 compiles and works well (-classic vm) on NetBSD/i386
> 1.4 will likely want to wait until SA's are merged.
> 
> Unfortunately, netbsd do not have a license to distribute jdk binary
> distributions, so you'd need to download the source yourself (agreeing
> to Sun's license etc), then you can grab the bsd java patches from (no
> idea actually - but the freebsd port thing should have a link,
> I must do a pkgsrc pkg for this...)
> and then it should build ok - on i386.  

Please do do a pkgsrc package. Then people who grab the source
themselves can plop it in to distfiles/ and build the whole thing
without trouble. It would be a great boon.

Perry