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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2001 13:07:03 -0700
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
To:        Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>
Cc:        Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>, sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG, java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Java port behavior ideas
Message-ID:  <3B0EBB67.3020708@quack.kfu.com>
References:  <3B0C3A63.3020908@quack.kfu.com> <200105241911.f4OJBtS32613@mail.uic-in.net> <20010526045110.A18502@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20010525215138.A55928@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>

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Ernst de Haan wrote:


> 
> The dependencies, however, would be a more complex story. We should search
> through the current Makefiles to see what ports depend on what JDK. Perhaps we
> can have an intermediate situation, where the old dirs still exist and contain
> a Makefile that just points to the new location. I know this construct is used
> in other places in the ports tree as well.

I think the best situation is to abstract it all by adding something 
along the lines of

USE_JAVA= 
yes

which would add a dependency on the vmwrapper and _any_ acceptable 
JRE/JDK (perhaps with a make.conf default or some such).

I would appreciate the disk space savings from being able to run 
Konqueror and browser plugins and JAR files with a JRE only, since I 
don't actually do any java development myself.

As for the where-to-place-JAR-files-and-jar-running-scripts issue, 
remember that at least one port (net/airport) installs multiple JAR 
files, so a shell script binding of $PREFIX/bin/$PORTNAME -> 
$PREFIX/share/$PORTNAME/${PORTNAME}.jar won't do.


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