Portmaster and Portmanager problem with jdk15

[RW]

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:28:53 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> RW wrote:
> > Both Portmaster and Portmanager (I haven't tried Portupgrade)
> > install java/linux-sun-jdk15 on an upgrade of java/jdk15. If I
> > upgrade jdk15 manually it isn't built, so it must be done by the
> > tools.
> > 
> > The way the jdk15 makefile works is that it looks for the location
> > of an existing jdk installation for bootstrapping and sets
> > BOOTSTRAPJDKDIR accordingly. We then have:
> > 
> > # if no valid jdk found, set dependency
> > .if !defined(BOOTSTRAPJDKDIR)
> > BOOTSTRAPJDKDIR?=${LOCALBASE}/linux-sun-jdk${SUN_LINUX_JDK_VERSION} 
> > .endif
> > BUILD_DEPENDS+=${BOOTSTRAPJDKDIR}/bin/javac:${PORTSDIR}/java/linux-sun-jdk15
> > 
> > 
> > I don't know why this causes the build-tools to install
> > linux-sun-jdk15, but simply moving the BUILD_DEPENDS+= line inside
> > the if-endif block, seems to fix the problem. That line is only
> > needed if no jdk is present.
> 
> Your analysis sounds right.

What I don't understand is why portmaster doesn't leave missing
build-dependencies to the ports-system itself. I wasn't using the -t
option and ${BOOTSTRAPJDKDIR}/bin/javac is provided by jdk15.