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Date:      Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:33:13 +0100
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Issues with portmaster
Message-ID:  <20080623133313.4d45819b@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:57:41 +0200
Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Alexey Shuvaev ha scritto:
> > It seems I don't understand something here. Can someone explain why
> > jdk ports need to set BUILD_DEPENDS on diablo-jdk15 unconditionally?
> 
> (nearly) every JDK port needs an already usable/installed JDK to 
> bootstrap the compilation. This is the reason of the BUILD_DEPENDS on 
> javac that you cannot remove. But the port providing the javac binary 
> could not be the diablo-jdk.

The thing is that, IIRC, it doesn't have to create a dependency at
all, unless the functionality is missing. It's not simply a case of it
creating a normally dependency in the sense of: install this port if
that file is not found. 

The makefile has logic to detect which java ports are installed, so it
doesn't build a second bootstap port, but it doesn't carry it through
to removing the dependency once bootstrapping is no longer required.

I reported this problem a long time ago after I spotted that
portmanager was reinstalling a linux java version. I thought the
maintainer was going to fix it. 



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