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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:20:15 +0100
From:      Ernst de Haan <ernst.dehaan@nl.wanadoo.com>
To:        java@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Openoffice-1.1 depends on 5 different jdks
Message-ID:  <200403250820.15128.ernst.dehaan@nl.wanadoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040324230327.GA56450@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20040324194155.GA53330@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040324205331.GA6028@phantom.cris.net> <20040324230327.GA56450@xor.obsecurity.org>

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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.

Ernst

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