Pushing for default jdk / jre to become java/diablo-j{dk,re}

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sat Mar 17 21:22:10 UTC 2007


Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:24:37PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>     I was just wondering if there was any way where we -- as a group 
>>> -- could push to make the default jdk / jre the diablo packaged 
>>> versions because frankly I don't want a system to assume that I want 
>>> to compile the 1.5 jdk / jre from scratch by first installing the 
>>> linux v1.4.2 of the jdk, and having to go through the long and 
>>> arduous process of compiling java, for little or no benefit (the only 
>>> benefit would be for different architectures that aren't available in 
>>> diablo-jdk/-jre, like sparc, powerpc). In that case one would be 
>>> required to do the above process.
>>>
>>>     It would be nice to add this in though so someone doesn't 
>>>     accidentally take all that time and disk space compiling all for 
>>> naught.
>>
>> Isn't it already the default (except on current where it does not
>> run)?
>>
>> Kris
> 
> Oh, duh.. forgot that it doesn't work on -CURRENT. I need to remove Java 
> support from OOo then ><..
> 
> Thanks Kris,
> -Garrett

Gary,
	See Kris's previous statement. I miscalculated that I was running 
-CURRENT on my devel box and diablo-caffe hasn't been ported to 
7-CURRENT yet.

All,
	Is there some set of steps that are required for building diablo-caffe? 
I wouldn't mind releasing some -CURRENT binaries if I could..
-Garrett


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