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diff --git a/lang/kaffe/DESCR b/lang/kaffe/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..55a63a4a0b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/kaffe/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +This is the first release of "Kaffe OpenVM", a complete virtual machine +and class library set which allows the execution of Java code without any +code from Javasoft. It comes with a virtual machine and a set of class +libraries including beans, and the all important AWT graphics system. + +Running Kaffe +============= +Before running Kaffe it is necessary to configure the environment. +This requires the setting of PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. +For the standard installation these would be defined as follows: + + PATH=$PATH:/${PREFIX}/kaffe/bin + LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${PREFIX}/kaffe/lib + +Note that you don't have to setup the CLASSPATH - if you do then that's +fine, but if you don't Kaffe will cosntruct a classpath from the Jar and Zip +files it finds in the standard places (the default would be to include all +files in ${PREFIX}/kaffe/share/kaffe). + +The value ${PREFIX} above is whatever LOCALBASE is set to in the +environment, or in /etc/mk.conf, when the package was installed on +NetBSD. By default this is /usr/pkg. |