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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:04:47 +0200
From: Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr>
To: "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
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Subject: Re: some questions about Java ports
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Hi,

Everything you ask here is documented in the Porter's handbook, Java
section:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/using-java.html

Herve

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:30:58PM -0400, Mikhail T. wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have the following issues with the current bsd.java.mk and
> thereabouts:
> 
> 	1) JAVA_HOME -- `make -V JAVA_HOME' prints the expected
> 	   value, but trying to, say, add JAVA_HOME="${JAVA_HOME}"
> 	   to MAKE_ENV results in an empty string being added...
> 
> 	2) JAVALIBDIR and JAVAJARDIR seem to be the same -- which
> 	   one should be used to look for other ports' JARs and
> 	   which to install my own?
> 
> 	3) Is "USE_JAVA=version" legitimate, or is one supposed to
> 	   use the redundant "USE_JAVA=yes" and "JAVA_VERSION=version"?
> 
> 	4) How to pass javac options to ant (when relying on USE_ANT=yes)?
> 
> 	5) On amd64 (and others, I guess), the only native JDK is 1.5. So,
> 	   when a port declares something like 1.3+ or 1.4+, bsd.java.mk
> 	   should build 1.5 on the platform, should not it?
> 
> Any comments, patches? Thanks!
> 
> 	-mi