From owner-freebsd-java Tue Apr 16 13:18:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from heaven.gigo.com (gigo.com [207.173.11.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D5937B419 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsace7003-163-6-135.dsl.telebrasilia.net.br (bsace7003-163-6-135.dsl.telebrasilia.net.br [200.163.6.135]) by heaven.gigo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418DAB725 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16394 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Apr 2002 20:18:07 -0000 Message-ID: <20020416201807.16393.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:17:45 -0300 From: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira To: Ernst de Haan Cc: zach@neurosoft.org, joshua@roughtrade.net, java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using NEED_JAVAC in ports References: <200204161951.VAA29489@smtp.hccnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200204161951.VAA29489@smtp.hccnet.nl>; from znerd@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:50:36PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE X-Disclaimer: I hope you find what you are looking for... in life :) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:50:36PM +0200, Ernst de Haan wrote: > > I'm sending you this email because I'm working on a change to bsd.java.mk > that will affect a port you're maintaining. More precisely: > > lang/kawa > net/javadc > net/jift > net/spread > > Is it okay if I make a small change to the Makefile of these ports? I would > like to add NEED_JAVAC=YES below the USE_JAVA=YES line. This should not > affect the working of the port. > > The source of the problem is that currently Jikes is registered as a > dependency of ports that don't even need a Java compiler. The bsd.java.mk > file will be changed so that you need to set NEED_JAVAC to YES if you need > ${JAVAC} to be set. > > This change has already made its way into the documentation for bsd.java.mk. > See: > > http://www.metaverse.nl/~ernst/writing.html I would authorize changes on my ports for adding a tweakable need for JAVAC but I would like to understand why would it affect jikes? I really use javac. After all, I don't need jikes in my two affected ports: javadc and jift. What your heuristic for picking either jikes or javac? I am curious. Regards, -- Mario S F Ferreira - DF - Brazil - "I guess this is a signature." Computer Science Undergraduate | FreeBSD Committer | CS Developer flames to beloved devnull@someotherworldbeloworabove.org feature, n: a documented bug | bug, n: an undocumented feature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message