This is a recording/transcript of what i did to install Java onto my machine. This will contain the steps and the results so i can verify where it got screwed up.. My Machine is the following: Model Name: Power Mac G5 Model Identifier: PowerMac7,3 Processor Name: PowerPC G5 (3.0) Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz Memory: 4 GB System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a) Kernel Version: Darwin 9.8.0 Logged in under senusilewis as user and as administrator for the session 1. Download the binaries. 2. Copy the binaries to /usr/local/XXX where the XXX represents the binary package like /usr/local/openjdk7-zerovm-ppc-jyeary-2012-02-16-07-18-b00 3. Test the installation. Started Terminal and copied the file openjdk7-zerovm-ppc-jyeary-2012-02-16-07-18-b00.zip into my downloads folder and unzipped it. Made the /usr folder visible and moved it into the /usr/local/folder/ /usr/local/openjdk7-zerovm-ppc-jyeary-2012-02-16-07-18-b00/bin/java \-version openjdk version "1.7.0-internal" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-internal-jyeary_2012_02_16_07_18-b00) OpenJDK Zero VM (build 21.0-b17, interpreted mode) Sicne that worked I installed MErcurial and the forest extension since it was mentioned in the sample given. I don't have MacPorts installed so i don't know if this would effect anything else. hg --version Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.0.2+20120104) (see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information) Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Matt Mackall and others This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. senusis-power-mac-g5:~ senusilewis$ cat .hgrc [ui] username = Senusi Lewis <sjlewis01.yahoo.com> [extensions] #hgext.forest=/Users/senusilewis/hgforest-crew/forest.py mq= hgk= fetch= [diff] nodates=1 git=1 Since i had a similar .hgrc file i kept going hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port cd bsd-port chmod 755 get_source.sh ./get_source.sh I ran through the process and got no visible errors when i tried the next line i got this for the directory.. ls -l total 664 -rw-r--r-- 1 senusilewis staff 1503 Nov 30 19:17 ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION -rw-r--r-- 1 senusilewis staff 19263 Nov 30 19:17 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 senusilewis staff 16341 Nov 30 19:17 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 senusilewis staff 1808 Nov 30 19:17 README -rw-r--r-- 1 senusilewis staff 112920 Nov 30 19:17 README-builds.html -rw-r--r-- 1 senusilewis staff 172252 Nov 30 19:17 THIRD_PARTY_README drwxr-xr-x 12 senusilewis staff 408 Nov 30 19:18 corba -rwxr-xr-x 1 senusilewis staff 1376 Nov 30 19:17 get_source.sh drwxr-xr-x 14 senusilewis staff 476 Nov 30 19:36 hotspot drwxr-xr-x 16 senusilewis staff 544 Nov 30 19:24 jaxp drwxr-xr-x 16 senusilewis staff 544 Nov 30 19:22 jaxws drwxr-xr-x 13 senusilewis staff 442 Nov 30 19:37 jdk drwxr-xr-x 13 senusilewis staff 442 Nov 30 19:20 langtools drwxr-xr-x 18 senusilewis staff 612 Nov 30 19:17 make drwxr-xr-x 3 senusilewis staff 102 Nov 30 19:17 test There it looks similar except that in the example results given. There were no .hg, .hgtags or .hgingore files. I was not sure if this wars corrrect so i continued with this part. #!/bin/sh cd bsd-port time env -i \ PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin \ LANG=C \ make \ CC=gcc-4.2 \ CXX=g++-4.2 \ ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true \ ALT_BOOTDIR=/usr/local/openjdk7-zerovm-ppc-jyeary-2012-01-18-b00 \ ALT_FREETYPE_HEADERS_PATH=/usr/X11R6/include \ ALT_FREETYPE_LIB_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib \ ALT_CACERTS_FILE=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home/lib/security/cacerts \ LIBFFI_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/ffi" \ DEFAULT_LIBPATH="/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib" \ NO_DOCS=true \ ZERO_BUILD=true \ ZERO_ENDIANNESS=big \ ZERO_LIBARCH=ppc \ ZERO_ARCHDEF=PPC \ ZERO_ARCHFLAG="-arch ppc" \ PARALLEL_COMPILE_JOBS=4 \ HOTSPOT_BUILD_JOBS=2 I got this as the result and it wasn't built. env: make: No such file or directory real 0m0.072s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.005s What does that mean and what happened? Senusi Lewis Amateur Writer and Gardener Library Assistant 1