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From: Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why sun-j2sdk && sun-jdk
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:57:14
Message-Id: 200209112057.21428.aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why sun-j2sdk && sun-jdk by Karl Trygve Kalleberg
1 On Wednesday 11 Sep 2002 16:50, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
2 > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
3 > > Why do we have ebuilds for dev-java/sun-j2sdk and dev-java/sun-jdk?
4 > > These both currently point to the same Sun Java VM and SDK, 1.4.0.
5 > > Has this created any dependency issues in the portage tree?
6 >
7 > The former builds the Sun JDK from sources (or attempts to, it's not
8 > finished). The latter is an ebuild for the binary that Sun
9 > distribute.
10 >
11 > According to Sun, the sources they provide are not the same as the
12 > ones they package in their binary. They are not up-front specific
13 > about the differences, but I'd assume they also some third-party
14 > licensed stuff.
15 >
16 > The original goal of the j2sdk was to have a proper VM plugin for
17 > mozilla when compiled with gcc-3.2.
18 >
19 > Kind regards,
20 >
21 > Karl T
22 >
23 I unmasked the sdk but none of the SRC_URI seem to be available from
24 http://java.sun.com/
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why sun-j2sdk && sun-jdk foser <foser@×××××××××××××××××.net>
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