Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:32:16 +0000 From: Rasputin <rasputin@submonkey.net> To: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal for Java(tm) dependency selection among ports Message-ID: <20011119163216.B56021@shikima.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <200111191317.fAJDHRi12634@zaphod.euronet.nl>; from znerd@freebsd.org on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 02:17:27PM %2B0100 References: <20011115130202.E33074@johncoop.MSHOME> <200111161042.fAGAg8V55897@zaphod.euronet.nl> <20011116084005.A40560@johncoop.MSHOME> <200111191317.fAJDHRi12634@zaphod.euronet.nl>
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Sorry to jump in after the fact ,but I wondered if there
was a specific problem with JAVA_VER
- this would tie in nicely with things like
XFREE86_VERSION and OS_VERSION, etc,
and could be compared against in the same way that
many ports use OS_VERSION (i.e. numerically > )
In any case, I think make.conf would be suitable to hold
relevant variables (once we decide what they are).
If an app needs a specific version of a JRE/JDK surely it can
just have a RUN_DEPENDS clause that points to an absolute path
e.g. (syntax may be wrong but you get the idea)
RUN_DEPENDS= ${LOCALBASE}/linux-jdk1.3.1/bin/java:${PORTDIR}/java/linux-jdk1.3.1
Although I've no idea how to handle an app that runs on multiple JVMS;
perhaps we should check each in order of preference, and use the first
that fits?
Also most ports seem to use JAVADIR or JAVA_HOME -
the two seem fairly interchangable so perhaps they could be merged in here
as well??
A lot of ports seem to use dependencies specific to whoever
wrote the port, so this is a mess worth fixing - roll on bsd.java.mk :)
--
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