Openoffice-1.1 depends on 5 different jdks

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:56:33AM +0100, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> 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.

OK, I'll probably just change it locally to see how far the openoffice
package build gets before it blows up.

Kris
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