forcing specific Java version as dependency

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 29 19:52:27 UTC 2014


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On 2014-05-29 15:38:57 -0400, Vick Khera wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Jung-uk Kim <jkim at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>> JAVA_PREFERRED_PORTS=JAVA_PORT_NATIVE_OPENJDK_JDK_1_7
> 
> nice. that works! this variable seems undocumented within the 
> bsd.java.mk file itself... only referenced once, too.
Good to hear it.

FYI, it's been available for more than ten years:

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/107239

Unfortunately it isn't easy to use as you see.  Probably that's why it
was never documented for so long. :-(

Jung-uk Kim
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