Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 12:04:17 -0700 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@freebsd.zuhause.org> Cc: ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is LibreOffice dependency on Java 1.6 still valid? Message-ID: <CAG=rPVf6dVffmH3WJxfKj2aZ3cdsCWU3b8_aSH=xUSnTR2pM4g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <540C8B64.7070403@freebsd.zuhause.org> References: <540C8B64.7070403@freebsd.zuhause.org>
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On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Bruce Albrecht <bruce@freebsd.zuhause.org> wrote: > As far as I can tell, LibreOffice on other platforms has supported Java > 1.7+ since the LibreOffice 3.6 release (or maybe earlier), and > OpenOffice supports Java 1.7+ also. Why does the FreeBSD port require > Java 1.6 for building when the Java option is set? > Probably no one tried it yet. Changing a libreoffice build dependency is a big job to validate. My advice would be to open an account on http://www.redports.org, and submit a patch changing editors/libreoffice/Makefile to either change JAVA_VERSION to 1.7+, and see if it passes a redports build. -- Craig
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