To follow up on my earlier post:

Nick Cuccia clued me in to sun's java packages in pkgsrc 
(sun-jdk13,sun-jdk14) which I must have missed. I've installed them and 
everything seems to work well.

Still not sure why blackdown didn't work... but it's not really an 
issue now.

-- Erik

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 04:07  PM, Erik Osheim wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> Recently, I wanted to set up java on my NetBSD machine (running 1.6). 
> I didn't want to use Japhar or Kaffe (since both seemed to be very 
> early jvms, and I wanted to be able to run at least java 1.2). I have 
> linux binary compatibility enabled in the kernel, and it looked like 
> blackdown was what I wanted. However, after having installed it (and 
> adding /usr/pkg/java/blackdown-1.3.1/bin to my path), things still 
> weren't working at all. "java -version" produces:
>
> cage,[htdocs],3:55pm# java -version
> /usr/pkg/java/blackdown-1.3.1/bin/../bin/i386/realpath: 21: Syntax 
> error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
> /usr/pkg/java/blackdown-1.3.1/bin/java: /bin/realpath: not found
> /usr/pkg/java/blackdown-1.3.1/bin/java: /bin/realpath: not found
> grep: /lib/jvm.cfg: No such file or directory
> grep: /lib/jvm.cfg: No such file or directory
> /usr/pkg/java/blackdown-1.3.1/bin/java: /bin/realpath: not found
> java was not found in /bin/i386/native_threads/java
>
> I can send more output if necessary.
>
> I'm not sure if I failed to configure blackdown properly or what. I 
> couldn't find any info on setting it up in 
> /usr/pkgsrc/lang/blackdown-jre13. I searched the web for more 
> information on using blackdown on netbsd, but I couldn't find anyone 
> claiming to be able to set it up and get it working.
>
> If anyone knows of any resources on the web, or has any advice on how 
> to get blackdown working under netbsd/i386, I would be indebted. Any 
> other suggestions pertaining to java would be useful, but I am 
> reluctant to use any JVM that is older than 1.2.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Erik
>
> P.S. My only real experience with Java has been on Solaris and MacOS 
> X, so I am a little bit spoiled when it comes to having to set it up 
> (or not having to, really!).
>