[Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20201206.1

[Luiz Carlos Ramos]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 08:29:27AM -0500, Barry J. Grundy wrote:
> 
> On 12/7/20 6:53 AM, Luiz Carlos Ramos wrote:
> > Hello, Barry,
> > 
> > just out of curiosity, in your system, if you type javac -version, what
> > do you get?
> > 
> > In my system, it gave me things like:
> > 
> >    javac 1.7.0_281
> > 
> > or for the java runtime:
> > 
> >    java version "1.7.0_281"
> >    OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.24) (Slackware)
> >    OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.281-b01, mixed mode)
> > 
> > I traced these packages and in fact they belong to an OpenJDK (from
> > Alien's repository) which obviously is not in the stock Slackware
> > install.
> > 
> > Anyway, in the build process some Java code was processed and it has
> > code constructions which are not supported in Java 1.7.
> > 
> > Now I feel that if the system has no Java installed at all, maybe the
> > build process skips all these Java thing. To verify this, I would take
> > some time to do it; so I won't try.
> > 
> > At the INSTALL.txt, it is stated that Java is needed only to build "Java
> > bindings". This may give some support to my "feeling" stated above.
> > 
> > A more simpler test would be setting a system with Java 1.7 compiler
> > (this is easy to do, setting the PATH environment variable accordingly)
> > and trying to rebuild the package. It hopefully would give errors such
> > the ones I saw here.
> > 
> > Many thanks!
> > 
> > Luiz
> 
> 
> Hi Luiz,
> 
> On a clean 14.2 system I get "command not found" for javac. Which of course
> makes sense.
> 
> I think the easiest solution for the SlackBuild is just to add
> "--disable-java" to the config and allow people to add it if they need to.
> 

Yes, good solution! As a matter of fact, I haven't tried to investigate
why the Java part is used for, and possibly it makes no sense in
building it.

> If there's no issues with that I'll go ahead and change it and re-submit
> (with a note in the README for the option to enable).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Barry
> 

Many thanks!

Luiz