Dear Scott,

>
> I`m pretty sure the Sun reference port of 1.2 will work on NetBSD
> 1.4.2 under Solaris emulation. I haven`t tried it recently although I
> will be testing it within the next few days since I need a working JDK
> to bootstrap a native port.
>
I have written a little howto specifically for bootstrapping a JDK
build on platforms without a working JDK. It is quite simple to invoke
Java on another machine through rsh(1).

Scripts and description can be found on my web site.
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/kjkoster/java/index.html Click on
"Bootstrap JDK" under the header "New BSD Platform Ports".

    Kees Jan

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 Kees Jan Koster                 e-mail: dutchman "at" tccn.cs.kun.nl
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