Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:29:10 GMT From: Herve Quiroz <hq@FreeBSD.org> To: bortzmeyer@nic.fr, hq@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/83000: trang depends on the non-free JDK, it should depend on the free gcj Message-ID: <200507051929.j65JTAYM011673@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: trang depends on the non-free JDK, it should depend on the free gcj State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: hq State-Changed-When: Tue Jul 5 19:15:58 GMT 2005 State-Changed-Why: The whole ports system uses logic from bsd.java.mk to pick a suitable JDK for each port. GCJ is not currently supported by bsd.java.mk and there are currently no plans to support GCJ at a port-level. On the other hand, some work is in progress to have Kaffe (a free JVM implementation) supported in bsd.java.mk. Until then, please use a "non-free" JDK to install trang. You may also contribute by sending a patch to bsd.java.mk for it to support GCJ. In such case, this mater should be discussed on freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org As for Debian, I think they are not allowed to distribute Sun's JDK anyway, that's why they have to make packages work with GCJ (I coudl be mistaken here, as I don't know much about Java@Debian). FreeBSD ports system contains 14 different working JDKs, all supported by bsd.java.mk... For further information regarding the JDK choice logic from bsd.java.mk, please refer to the Porter's Handbook, Java section: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/using-java.html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=83000
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