Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Alternatives system added
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/25/2005 09:17:27
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> The next step is to convert all the Java JRE/JDK packages to use it as well
Don't forget to have archivers/fastjar supply an alternative for "jar", as
well as have devel/jikes supply an alternaiove for "javac".
Note that jikes is a little special in that it needs a -bootclasspath
argument in order to get access to a set of Java classes. See what I put
into the example java-wrapper.conf, and make particular note of how it has
to use a shell construct to build the -bootclasspath arg. Because it's
dependent on using some other JVM's classes, it may be necessary to comment
out its alternative[*] by default and require hand editing to specify the
desired JVM's classes.
[*] Does the alternatives system support commenting out things? If not, it
should, for reasons such as this.
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