java/jdk14, BUILD_DEPENDS, and portmanager -u

[Sam Lawrance]

On 07/11/2005, at 9:56 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote:


> On Sunday 06 November 2005 14:10, Ian D. Leroux wrote:
>
>
>> I have a native build of jdk14 (jdk-1.4.2p7_2) installed on my  
>> system,
>> and so far whenever that port has needed upgrading it's been able  
>> to use
>> the existing jdk to build the new one (I deinstalled linux-sun-jdk  
>> some
>> time ago).  While running portmanager -u today I noticed it trying to
>> upgrade the jdk on the grounds that it has an out-of-date  
>> dependency on
>>
>> linux-sun-jdk (which is "missing").  Sure enough:
>>
>>
>>> cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 && make -V BUILD_DEPENDS
>>>
>>>
>
> portmanager just went through a major change with version 0.3.2,
>
> If I understand your post correctly there might be a bug in  
> portmanager,
> here is how it "should work":
>
> if a port has an out of date RUN_DEPENDS LIB_DEPENDS or DEPENDS
> then it gets picked for rebuilding, but is'nt actually built until
> all of the port's BUILD_DEPENDS EXTRACT_DEPENDS PATCH_DEPENDS
> FETCH_DEPENDS and all of the run depends are up to date.
>
> Please try
>
> cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 && make -V RUN_DEPENDS -V LIB_DEPENDS -V  
> DEPENDS
>
> If any of those are out of date then that is probably the real  
> reason why
> jdk14 is being updated and this is just a reporting problem.
>
> For the bad news though, if linux-sun-jdk is a BUILD_DEPENDS then  
> portmanager
> is going to expect it to be installed before building java/jdk14.   
> If there
> is another way to build that port the proper place to fix this  
> problem is in
> that port's Makefile. Maybe by making the BUILD_DEPEND contitional
> on the existanace of its own existing JDK?
>

You cannot have circular dependencies in the ports tree.

I think the real problem is that portmanager is looking specifically  
for the existence of the linux-sun-jdk port, which is not what the  
jdk14 port does ordinarily.

Cheers
Sam