From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 7 19:04:20 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DBD94B86 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2014 19:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x231.google.com (mail-lb0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 635F31E86 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2014 19:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f177.google.com with SMTP id l4so3158218lbv.22 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2014 12:04:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=/S6FARidVvwbgmbbHjqk2QI61mJThET1YLrN9NmfIXo=; b=QH7PnDoiqkORK4026o59YFXdq4QpSs/G1PrRLsUIVqddzwh0nn5bfEt37VdTe4sFRj 0wXknv3YXv9GVoeu1ndx/5/JEhcWzQ9lz04+JmUyuCiB7tjZWKcPjxTiskz0e7LVfP8v fhVSeukeM+zHyBKN3qUOtqQK6Myh/gNOfUE2dFjj/n50tYv2dJFg+Lqqt7Kcvc/ygcW3 sekvP3SU5LxgGWmVxuabuVvufwDEsLOB4+6JDvAILvkqn0xwaTS6e4yYcdSnGPNcdOiL ogjCU8qOqsbA9HnGwSDgzoPY0MmWd56RXCuqbk7fVwMqcBNt+iIRN9LjT+jy88YdFS+y LTdQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.5.66 with SMTP id q2mr24518019laq.11.1410116657108; Sun, 07 Sep 2014 12:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.22.72 with HTTP; Sun, 7 Sep 2014 12:04:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <540C8B64.7070403@freebsd.zuhause.org> References: <540C8B64.7070403@freebsd.zuhause.org> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 12:04:17 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: flDp759vDVoJu4mcUJxC7qdvdF4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is LibreOffice dependency on Java 1.6 still valid? From: Craig Rodrigues To: Bruce Albrecht Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 19:04:20 -0000 On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > As far as I can tell, LibreOffice on other platforms has supported Java > 1.7+ since the LibreOffice 3.6 release (or maybe earlier), and > OpenOffice supports Java 1.7+ also. Why does the FreeBSD port require > Java 1.6 for building when the Java option is set? > Probably no one tried it yet. Changing a libreoffice build dependency is a big job to validate. My advice would be to open an account on http://www.redports.org, and submit a patch changing editors/libreoffice/Makefile to either change JAVA_VERSION to 1.7+, and see if it passes a redports build. -- Craig