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To: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>
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Subject: Re: JDK ports revisited
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Ernst de Haan wrote:
> 
> Hervey,
> 
> > This is the area where I'd like to see some improvements - assuming of
> > course I haven't missed something during my experimentation. Essentially, it
> > appears that many of the Java ports (for example, Tomcat) have dependencies
> > on the native jdk1.1.8 port in their Makefile although these ports work fine
> > on the other JDK versions. I prefer to use the Linux JDK 1.3 port for the
> > moment and find myself having to doctor these Makefiles in order get things
> > to install.

Same here...

> > Is there a way this can be solved with a more generic dependency or did I
> > just miss something obvious ?
> 
> This is where javavmwrapper comes in. Any Java port that needs a Java VM
> version 1.1 or higher should depend on javavmwrapper, instead of on java/jdk
> or so. If you give me a (partial) list of the ports that expose the problem
> you mention, then I'll see what I can do. I can probably fix them within a few
> days.

I would like to see some centralized way to depend on java, and
optionally add a least version. For the databases/postgresql7
port, which I maintain, I had to do some rather strange hackish
things to determine which jdk that should be used (see
/usr/ports/databases/postgres1l7/scripts/configure.postgresql,
line 56ff). A USE_JAVA widget centrally defined in
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk would be the ultimate solution, IMO.

Also, I can't see that javavmwrapper whould really install
*any* JDK if there is none installed already, and hence it is
not enough for a port to depend on the javavmwrapper; no jdk
would get installed on a clean system, and the build would
fail...

/Palle

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