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From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@×××××××.no>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How shall ebuild handle binary package (jar file)?
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 05:52:05
Message-Id: 20020325145226.GA17362@prosalg.no
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] How shall ebuild handle binary package (jar file)? by "Lars S. Jensen"
1 On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:01:19PM +0100, Lars S. Jensen wrote:
2 > I am trying to fix the problem with postgresql-7.2 and sun-jdk1.4 --
3 > it is installed without JDBC support because sun-jdk1.4 can't compile a
4 > JDBC 2.x interface but it can use it at runtime with the precompile
5 > jar-file pgjdbc2.jar.
6 >
7 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713
8 >
9 > I need to install the precompile jar-file pgjdbc2.jar in the ebuild.
10
11 You should not precompile it.
12
13 > One solution is to pack it in a tarfile and install/unpack it like the
14 > nvidia-glx -- is that OK?
15
16 No.
17
18 > Can 'use java' handle versions, so that we can compile it with versions
19 > below 1.4 or shall we allways install the precompiled version!
20
21 Why can't you have the postgres ebuild depend on <virtual/jdk-1.4, then
22 this problem goes away.
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25 We will not add pre-built binaries in our source tree just because
26 jdk-1.4, which is spanking new, has a few issues the first few months.
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29 Kind regards,
30
31 Karl T