Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 06:03:18 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr> Cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal for bsd.java.mk Message-ID: <20011210060318.A37088@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <20011210113932.L99945-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr>; from herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:49:41 -0800 References: <20011210113932.L99945-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr>
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On 2001.12.10 02:49 Herve Quiroz wrote:
> A few questions...
>
> Does the USE_JAVA variable stand for "requires a JDK/JRE to build" or
> "requires a JDK/JRE to run" ? Do you plan do make any difference ?
Require to run. I don't believe BUILD_DEPENDS are as critical in the
Java context. What I'd like to minimize is the need to install every
damn JDK--along with a slew of script files to mangle the environments
for each and every Java application. Rather, I'd like to see the most
compatible (usually, one of the Java2 ports) JDK/JRE selected for the
given set of applications a user has installed. Moreover, JDK's are
big, and I'd like the user to have JRE's unless she specifically
indicates the desire to have a JDK environment.
> Also I
> don't understand the meaning of the JAVA_LIB variable. Is this really
> needed by any port so far ? It would be needed if using any third
> party
> compiler such as jikes but in that case the user would have
> (hopefully)
> set the JIKESPATH. Anyway I think there should be an unified way to
> deal
> with JAVA_LIB/JIKESPATH etc so maybe the port being installed should
> handle this additional CLASSPATH. This way, installing any lib would
> also
> mean its jar would be added in the classpath automatically.
>
For me, that's the object of JAVA_LIB. If I know the path to the core
Java libraries and the version of the JDK/JRE, I can deduce
${JAVA_LIB}/classes.zip for 1.1.x and ${JAVA_LIB}/tools.jar for Java2.
Moreover, if it's Java2, I can sidestep a CLASSPATH extension by
sticking the new JAR file in the ext/ portion of the Java2 tree.
> Herve
>
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