Openoffice-1.1 depends on 5 different jdks

[Ernst de Haan]

On Thursday 25 March 2004 08:43, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:20:15AM +0100, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> > Kris,
> >
> > > This does hilight the bsd.java.mk problem that old versions of the
> > > jdk are used by default by the USE_JAVA=1.2+ construction, which
> > > defaults to the oldest possible jdk (1.2) instead of the newest
> > > stable version.
> >
> > When newer JDK's become more stable than the old ones _and_ have not
> > too many dependencies, then the newer JDK's are moved up the preference
> > list.
>
> Isn't at least 1.3 considered "stable"?  1.2 is unbuildable as a
> package because it eventually depends on the FORBIDDEN compat3x.

Indeed we could use 1.3. I just checked the bsd.java.mk source and if 
USE_JAVA is set to 1.1+ and no JDK is installed, then it will use 1.1.

But I suggest we hold off changing this now, because we're in the process of 
a new bsd.java.mk 2.0, by Herve Quiroz. If there are any changes we need to 
make to the process, they should be made to the new version.

Ernst

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