From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 07:31:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD3116A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:31:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.131.111.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ECFC43D45 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:31:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gerald@pfeifer.com) Received: from [128.131.111.60] (acrux [128.131.111.60]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC867137A4; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:31:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:31:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Etienne Robillard In-Reply-To: <40798C91.1040708@videotron.ca> Message-ID: References: <200402271110.i1RBArT5061902@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040324022723.GA4544@moo.holy.cow> <40798C91.1040708@videotron.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: kris@obsecurity.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/63427: [lang/gcc33] Disabling the Java frontend at compile time X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:31:27 -0000 On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Etienne Robillard wrote: > Done :) see below. I had a look at this patch, and as far as I understand it, building Java should be the default (not disabling it). > Ain't that GUI Options screen cool ? :-) :-) > -bin/%%GNU_HOST%%-gcj33 > +%%LIBJAVA%%bin/%%GNU_HOST%%-gcj33 This doesn't seem right: one might want to just disable building libgcj, and still build the Java frontend. In fact, does it really much sense to disable building the frontend, now that we have support for disabling libgcj? The frontend is comparatively light, adding such an option will add complexity to the port and an hardly tested path (combinatorial explosion). > There's still some minimal glitches about info files, namely gcj and > fastjar. I'm sure this is not a problem. One more thing, I didn't had > time to test _with_ (default settings) the JAVA knob. So maybe this is > still early, since Gerald wanted to clear out bugs before adding stuff. Yes. :-) And I think the point you are making is a very good one: will this really be tested on a regular base, if we add such an option? Gerald -- Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry) gerald@pfeifer.com http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/