In article <43810390$0$44038$dbd4d001@news.wanadoo.nl>, jKILLSPAM.schipper@math.uu.nl wrote:
>Gregory Toomey <nobody@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> I didn't know Openbsd ran java (licencing issue).

>It does, but it isn't a package and will not build automagically from
>ports (it requires you to accept the license). Additionally, it cannot
>be bootstrapped on OpenBSD, so lots of workarounds and hours of
>compiling are necessary to get it to work.

Actually, devel/jdk/1.42 and devel/jdk/1.5 do appear to be bootstrapping
themselves. Both require the previous version before itself to be
installed in order to build, and both require source plus some patches
from elsewhere which they compile to make into a fake package to
install. Even though you have to go and manually download the distfiles,
you aren't downloading just a binary package which runs without needing
to compile.