Re: Re: jdk 1.5 at last! Yay!

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:09:35 +0100, "Alex R. Mosteo"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:07:02 +0100, "Alex R. Mosteo"
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> >>
> >>>Just finished building and installing the Sun Java 1.5.0 kit on my
> >>>Athlon (32-bit) box.  Finally catching up with the rest of you
> >>>folks. :-)
> >>>
> >>>Unfortunately, we're still seeing some build problems for amd64
> >>>under FreeBSD.  :-(  But the problems have been reported and are
> >>>being worked on.  Shouldn't be long before I have a full 64-bit
> >Java >>up and running.  I can hardly wait!
> >>>
> >>>Too early to tell what sort of difference this new version will
> >>>make, but nonetheless, I'm very happy to finally be up to date.
> >>
> >>A difference is that FIW no longer works :P
> > 
> > 
> > Uh-oh!  Not good!
> > 
> > Do you mean it just plain flat-out won't work, or that it won't
> > compile? I've already tried the latter, and found that its use of
> > "enum" as an identifier causes the compile to fail.
> 
> In my case, I use a precompiled fiw from old (the one from the
> website,  I think). When running it with the 1.5 jre, the interface
> shows with a  strange (grayish) look. When attempting an insertion, it
> hangs.
> 
> >>>Somebody congratulate me.  :-)
> >>
> >>Congratulations ;)
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks.  But if fiw won't work at all under 1.5, it looks like I'll
> > have to revert to 1.4.2 for now.  :-(  We'll see.
> 
> My solution is to specifically use 1.4 for FIW. I already had a script
> 
> to launch it, so it was a very minor nuissance to alter it to add an 
> absolute path. Everything else has worked ok with 1.5 here.

I just did a test and thank goodness, fiw still works.  :-)  That would
have been very bad indeed.  :-)

Stupid me, though, last night, as I was rebuilding freenet under 1.5, I
forgot to modify my startup script, and freenet kept failing at startup.
Only took me an hour or two to realize what was really going on.  :-)

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <[email protected]> -- "In Unix veritas"
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