Stepan Kasal wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:43:59PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> Andrew Overholt (overholt@xxxxxxxxxx) said: >>> * Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> [2009-05-05 10:51]: >>>> The best defaults for koji are probably gcj on non-x86 machines and >>>> openjdk on x86 machines. >>> If I say "yum install java-devel" what gets installed? How is it >>> determined? >> Via the comps file. The current java development group is attached. By >> default, installing the group gets you the 'mandatory' and 'default' >> packages. >> >> The comps file does not have arch-specific bits, so doing gcj on >> non-x86 and openjdk on x86 isn't really practical, without a lot >> of metapackages. > > this explanation sort of confuses me. The current situation really > *is* what Andrew Haley proposed. > > I guess that though the comps file does not have arch-specific bits, > the installation is determined by arch-specific dependencies in the > packages. > > That was exactly what has brought my attention to this: > the differences between the two java's (e.g. that jni.h is installed > to the default include path by gcj but not by openjdk, different > javadocs) make the good old generic > BuildRequires: java-devel > very problematic, so I had to change it to > BuildRequires: java-1.5.0-gcj-devel > > Well, my package builds fine with gcj and my conscience is clear as I > have reported this, so all is fine. :-) Sure, but it would make much more sense to look for jni.h in the right place: then it would build with either. I would like to move jni.h out of the compiler's default include path, but then God only knows what else would break. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
