Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:16:51 -0700 From: "Andrew Gerweck" <andrew.gerweck@presedia.com> To: <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>, "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: <JKEAICMFONIKJINBOEKLGEBHCKAA.andrew.gerweck@presedia.com> In-Reply-To: <1018998636.91799.1.camel@johncoop.MSHOME>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Maybe it should be NEED_JAVA_COMPILER and NEED_JIKES. NEED_JAVAC is a bit
ambiguous for the usage proposed.
Thanks,
Andrew Gerweck
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of John Merryweather
Cooper
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 4:11 PM
To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira
Cc: Ernst de Haan; zach@neurosoft.org; joshua@roughtrade.net;
java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Using NEED_JAVAC in ports
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,
>
> --
> Mario S F Ferreira - DF - Brazil - "I guess this is a signature."
> Computer Science Undergraduate | FreeBSD Committer | CS Developer
> flames to beloved devnull@someotherworldbeloworabove.org
> feature, n: a documented bug | bug, n: an undocumented feature
>
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
--
_
| |V| / ' || MacroHard -- \
\_| | | \_, || the perfection of form over |
----------------------------------|| substance, marketing over |
Web: http://www.borgsdemons.com || performance, and greed over |
AIM: johnmcooper || design . . . |
=====================================================================/
Public Key: http://www.borgsdemons.com/Personal/pgpkey.asc |
=====================================================================\
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?JKEAICMFONIKJINBOEKLGEBHCKAA.andrew.gerweck>