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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:46:03 +0200
From:      Ernst de Haan <ernsth@nl.euro.net>
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:  <200204170646.g3H6k3T62532@zaphod.euronet.nl>
In-Reply-To: <1018998636.91799.1.camel@johncoop.MSHOME>
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On Wednesday 17 April 2002 01:10, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> 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.

Although it may sound symmetric, it is not. If a port sets NEED_JAVAC to YES 
it really means: "I need a Java compiler and I don't care if it's javac or 
anything else". If you set USE_JIKES to NO as well, then that means: "I do 
not want Jikes as the compiler."

Hence NEED_JAVAC could be renamed to NEED_JAVA_COMPILER, but then we would 
have to rename JAVAC to JAVA_COMPILER as well. My suggestion would be to 
stick with my last proposal. It's documented at:

   http://www.metaverse.nl/~ernst/writing.html


Ernst

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Ernst de Haan
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