Cory C. Albrecht <coryalbrecht@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

If that is bootstrapping, my definition needs updating. No sarcasm here
- just that I wouldn't have called it bootstrapping.

And the hours of compiling still stand... ;-)

Joachim