64-bit OpenJDK Java Plugin from Fedora for Gentoo AMD64

I was getting frustrated with the Icedtea overlays I've found. I had older versions that worked fine but the new ones were a pain so I grabbed the latest Java from Fedora and made a new ebuild to install it.

First create an overlay directory and checkout the ebuild:

# echo "PORTDIR_OVERLAY=\"/usr/local/portage\"" >> /etc/make.conf
# cd /usr/local
# mkdir portage
# cd portage
# mkdir profiles
# cd profiles
# echo "local" > repo_name
# cd /usr/local/portage
# mkdir dev-java
# cd dev-java
# wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=1 -R *.html www.j79zlr.com/portage/dev-java/

Now you are ready to install the openjdk-bin ebuild and set the 64-bit plugin.

# emerge --ask --verbose openjdk-bin
# eselect java-nsplugin set 64bit openjdk-bin-1.6

Now go ahead and test it, you should have a working 64-bit java plugin.

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Created 11/1/08 at 6:05 pm GMT. Last editted: 11/8/08 at 2:15 am