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From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@prosalg.no>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How shall ebuild handle binary package (jar file)?
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:52:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020325145226.GA17362@prosalg.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1016917279.2635.72.camel@pegasus.lasj.dk>

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:01:19PM +0100, Lars S. Jensen wrote:
> I am trying to fix the problem with postgresql-7.2 and sun-jdk1.4 -- 
> it is installed without JDBC support because sun-jdk1.4 can't compile a
> JDBC 2.x interface but it can use it at runtime with the precompile
> jar-file pgjdbc2.jar.
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713
> 
> I need to install the precompile jar-file pgjdbc2.jar in the ebuild.

You should not precompile it.

> One solution is to pack it in a tarfile and install/unpack it like the
> nvidia-glx -- is that OK?

No.

> Can 'use java' handle versions, so that we can compile it with versions
> below 1.4 or shall we allways install the precompiled version! 

Why can't you have the postgres ebuild depend on <virtual/jdk-1.4, then
this problem goes away. 


We will not add pre-built binaries in our source tree just because
jdk-1.4, which is spanking new, has a few issues the first few months.


Kind regards,

Karl T



  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-25 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-23 21:01 [gentoo-dev] How shall ebuild handle binary package (jar file)? Lars S. Jensen
2002-03-25 14:52 ` Karl Trygve Kalleberg [this message]
2002-03-25 14:54 ` Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2002-03-25 17:40   ` Lars S. Jensen

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