Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:01:44 -0400 From: Jim Trigg <jtrigg@spamcop.net> To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> Cc: Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request gcc 34 port build gcj Message-ID: <43179668.60803@spamcop.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.62.0509020022420.80138@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> References: <20050827135333.64387.qmail@web52108.mail.yahoo.com> <Pine.BSF.4.62.0509020022420.80138@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Patrick Dung wrote: > >>Since pdftk itself depends on gcj3.x, I cannot make it to build on >>gcc/gcj 4.0 or 4.1 port. >> >>Please enable the build of gcj on gcc34 port. >>Only allowing gcj to build on gcj41 breaks compatibilty. >> >I really would prefer not to reenable the (relatively weak) Java >frontend in the lang/gcc34 port for the sake of a single port. > >And Java is sufficiently huge a frontend, with the library, that >I'd prefer not to burden FreeBSD 4.x users who just need to use >lang/gcc34 to build other ports with it. > >What do others think? (One way to address this would be for me >to relinguish the lang/gcc34 port as maintainer so that someone >else can then make this change.) > Maybe create a gcj34 port which depends on gcc34 and on which pdftk can depend? Jim
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