From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FnFtM-00006D-Sf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:17:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k55EFo1u025317; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:15:50 GMT Received: from banta-im.com (roy-rogers.nfic.com [208.231.230.100]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k55EFnc7023181 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:15:49 GMT Received: from by banta-im.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09744; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:15:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44843C93.1020300@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:15:47 -0400 From: Joshua Nichols User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060510) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter , gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Re: How to predetermine if ebuilds will compile with 1.5? References: <44833F92.1020201@seznam.cz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b9c2186f-93ec-4caf-be09-3915634473d6 X-Archives-Hash: e0e3f38fdb8c3d4b0f33802f0eb39ce0 Peter wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:16:18 +0200, Caster wrote: > > >> Peter wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to predetermine if ebuilds already installed on my system >>> will work with java jdk 1.5? >>> >>> > snip... > >>> So, my question is, with this list, can I safely install and have as my >>> system vm 1.5 without any hassle? >>> >> If you follow the migration overlay guide, yes. >> >> > > Actually, what I was asking was _would_ it work without the overlay? I > mean, if the ebuild is marked =virtual/jdk-1.4, then I could understand a > potential for trouble. But when it's just marked (whether by laziness or > whether it's correct) virtual/jdk, it'd be nice to know whether 1.5 could > work. > Even if all the ebuilds had the right jdk version in the DEPEND, it still wouldn't quite help. This is mostly because the current build system isn't smart enough to switch to an appropriate JDK at build time, and because you could still have a 1.4 JDK installed, but your 1.5 JDK is set as the system VM. Fortunately, the new system (which is coming soon (TM)) addresses these problems and more. > Anyway, since I don't develop in Java, this is really a non-issue for me > -- more an academic question and a desire to keep current. I _am_ going to > keep fooling with having a 1.5 jre with a 1.4 jdk and see how that works > as described in my other post. Thx for the replies! > > - Josh -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list