Bug report files on bugs.ojn: Lack of FreeBSD installation instructions.

[Iris Clark]

Hi, Tim.

Sure, we can add FreeBSD to the install page, but is there any way to verify that these instructions are correct?  They appear to imply that a make does an implicit download.  Is that correct on FreeBSD?

This page looks promising but does not provide an answer.

http://www.freebsd.org/java/install.html

I'm reluctant to provide instructions unless somebody can test it to verify.

Thanks,
iris

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bell 
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 4:23 PM
To: web-discuss at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Bug report files on bugs.ojn: Lack of FreeBSD installation instructions.

Hello-  I am doing a cleanup pass over the reports on bugs.openjdk.java.net.

This report was submitted against a web page:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100125

Description

> The http://openjdk.java.net/install/ page doesn't mention FreeBSD, 
> even through OpenJDK is available in the Ports Collection.  It could 
> contain something like:
>
> On FreeBSD, do the following:
>
> On the command line, type:
>
> cd /usr/ports/java/openjdk6 && make install


Could we add this information on http://openjdk.java.net/install/ to would cover FreeBSD?

Thanks-

Tim