Re: Re: JDK used for compiling

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 20:06 +0100, Sven Köhler wrote:
> >> I was conviced, that ebuilds always use the lowest JDK version possible.
> >> But it seems, that packages use the System VM - which is 1.6 in my case.
> >> But 1.5 is also installed.
> > 
> > Ebuilds compile source/target based on the lowest JDK version specified
> > in the ebuild. Which vm is used is controlled by by the ebuild and/or
> > the env. But most times that's restricted just to a version that
> > satisfied a virtual. Not specific vms.
> 
> Oh good! I was hoping to hear that.
> 
> But here, on my machine with default config, i'm compiling
> commons-daemon, and it says "using sun-jdk-1.6".

> Oh, and even if i set the system VM to 1.5, it still uses sun-jdk-1.6.
> Strange! Look:

SYSTEM VM != BUILD VM

> Why that? I don't find any particular line in commons-daemon's ebuild
> which specifies, that it should use JDK 1.6 instead of JDK 1.5.
> The dependencies are >=virtual/jdk-1.4 and such.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml#doc_chap5

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
Gentoo/Java

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