From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Apr 10 11:25:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA28016 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA28011 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:25:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA25725; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:31:31 +0300 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:31:30 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Sujal Patel cc: Tim Wilkinson , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port of Kaffe-0.3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Sujal Patel wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Tim Wilkinson wrote: > > > I've uploaded a port of Kaffe-0.3 onto freebsd.org in /pub/FreeBSD/incoming. > > The file is called kaffe-0.3-port.tgz. > > Can you make this port rely on the "jdk" port which is in ports-current. > This will give you the JDK classes.zip (and this can be shared with other ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Can't a mini-port be made out of this file? I mean, if there are and is going to be many ports depending on some file (or files) while not depending on other parts of the respective port, then woudln't it be better to sperate that file into another port (licence permitting) and make all those ports depend on that mini-port (in this case classes.zip)? Oops... a way too long sentence :( > ports using this file). > > Also, if you install "javac" in /usr/local/bin, please install as > something else (like javac_kaffe) and then do a ln -sf javac_kaffe javac. > > > Sujal > > Sander Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :)