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

OK, so i don't understand.

Why does commons-daemon use sun-jdk-1.6 to compile while sun-jdk-1.5* is
installed too?

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