Date: 16 Apr 2002 17:10:31 -0600 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@freebsd.org> Cc: Ernst de Haan <znerd@freebsd.org>, zach@neurosoft.org, joshua@roughtrade.net, java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using NEED_JAVAC in ports Message-ID: <1018998636.91799.1.camel@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <20020416204557.29380.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> References: <200204161951.VAA29489@smtp.hccnet.nl> <20020416201807.16393.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <200204162022.WAA12797@smtp.hccnet.nl> <20020416204557.29380.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here>
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I agree with lioux--a NEED_JIKES knob would be symmetric and would help
clarify in the mind of the porter/maintainer what he/she is really
getting when NEED_JAVAC is set.
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 14:45, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:21:54PM +0200, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> >
> > > I would authorize changes on my ports for adding a tweakable
> > > need for JAVAC but I would like to understand why would it affect
> > > jikes? I really use javac. After all, I don't need jikes in my
> > > two affected ports: javadc and jift.
> > > What your heuristic for picking either jikes or javac?
> > > I am curious.
> >
> > The behaviour of your port will not change. The behaviour of some other ports
> > will change, though. More specifically: The ports that define USE_JAVA but do
> > not use ${JAVAC} will not depend on Jikes anymore, even if bsd.java.mk
> > previously determined that Jikes should be used if a Java compiler was
> > necessary.
> >
> > The problem is that bsd.java.mk currently sets Jikes as a dependency for any
> > port that has USE_JAVA defined and Jikes installed on their system...
> >
> > Hope this is clear. If it's not, then it's my fault. I'm tired ||-)
>
> Don't worry. It's my fault: "He who asks the right question,
> gets the right answer."
>
> I was wondering:
>
> 1) I use javac in one port which is a fact
> 2) I do not need any special functionality from jikes
>
> Therefore, I need javac installed but rather not
> depend on jikes... even if it is installed. If it is not installed,
> I do not want it to be installed.
>
> Shouldn't we have both NEED_JAVAC and NEED_JIKES?
>
> .ifdef(NEED_JIKES)
> NEED_JAVAC=yes
> JAVAC=jikes
> .endif
>
> Unless, I am mistaking my defining NEED_JAVAC does not
> imply in my wanting jikes but rather javac.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
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