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by **M. Campbell or Lee Cremean** » Sat, 25 Jan 1997 04:00:00

>Hello,
>I am looking for the JDK 1.1 for FreeBSD - does anybody know if that
>alread exists and where I culd find it? thank you!

I believe the Sun SPARC srcs will compile on FreeBSD, that's what they
used in the jdk port. Haven't tried it myself, because the tarball is
gigantic (like 13 MB) and I only have a 14.4k modem :(

Lee C.

by **Martin Cracau** » Sun, 26 Jan 1997 04:00:00

>>Hello,
>>I am looking for the JDK 1.1 for FreeBSD - does anybody know if that
>>alread exists and where I culd find it? thank you!
>I believe the Sun SPARC srcs will compile on FreeBSD, that's what they
>used in the jdk port. Haven't tried it myself, because the tarball is
>gigantic (like 13 MB) and I only have a 14.4k modem :(

Excuse me? As far as I know, only Sparc *binaries* has been
released. An anyway, it is not easy to adapt the JVM to a new OS.

The 13 MB are due to packing by uuencoding a *.Z file and wrapping a
shellscript aroudn it.

It's half the size as .tar.gz. And those folks at sun wonder why their
servers overload...

Martin
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