Re: Question for java/eclipse build

Hello Ronald,

thanks for the comments...  :-)

I think I will take another approach to build eclipse in future on 
FreeBSD.  About 2-3 year ago I made a lot patches to make version 4.32 
work - the previous one was 4.24.  It took a lot of hours.  After months 
someone took over and created a github repository with FreeBSD stuff, 
which I took as the basis.  The maintainer of that repo also creates 
*.tar.gz files which contain a full FreeBSD compilation / package, but 
not usable the pkg way.  So why recompile?  I want to take his *.tar.gz 
file, extract and do the needed post-install steps.  The end should a 
"normal" package usable for FreeBSD :-)

The first steps of this approach seems to work...  I would like to check 
before I submit and before other people would confirm, that it works.

What do you think?  This way is more easy and does not use a long 
compilation time - just seconds for download and prepare.  And it is 
less error lasting ;-)

Of course I will depend on this github repository and data.  But that I 
did the last versions, too...

Regards, Norbert

On 3/13/26 13:52, Ronald Klop wrote:
> Rereading your mail I saw some more concerns you mention.
>
> 1. When developing your port for main it can be easier to install 
> dependencies for main also. That gives consistency to what is upstream.
> 2. As long as the maintainer of maven39 does not merge the changes to 
> the quarterly branch, you don't need to do anything for quarterly. But 
> keep the 4.38 tag unchanged in github.
> 3. Your https://github.com/NorbertXYZ/eclipse repo has a nice 
> README.md, maybe add something similar to the eclipse-maven repo with 
> instructions to your future self on how you did things. 😀 I totally 
> recognize going back to some project years later and wondering how 
> things worked.
>
> If you get stuck, there are probably some people here or on java@ that 
> want to help further.
>
> NB: it can really help to keep ports@ in the cc:, if you want feedback 
> from others too.
>
> Regards,
> Ronald.
>
> *Van:* Norbert Grundmann <[email protected]>
> *Datum:* vrijdag, 13 maart 2026 13:37
> *Aan:* Ronald Klop <[email protected]>
> *Onderwerp:* Re: Question for java/eclipse build
>
>     Thanks a lot :-) :-) I will see...
>     On 3/13/26 13:35, Ronald Klop wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         cc-ing ports@ back into the conversation
>
>         *Van:* Norbert Grundmann <[email protected]>
>         *Datum:* vrijdag, 13 maart 2026 12:46
>         *Aan:* Ronald Klop <[email protected]>
>         *Onderwerp:* Re: Question for java/eclipse build
>
>             On 3/13/26 08:51, Ronald Klop wrote:
>             > The java/eclipse/Makefile has this comment:
>             >
>             > # The github repositories.  The repository under
>             NorbertXYZ is for a > predefined maven
>             > # download, so the build does not need to download while
>             do-build is > running
>             >
>             > I think the port needs an updated NorbertXYZ.
>             >
>             > Regards,
>             > Ronald
>
>             Thank you - that is the reason...  I can see this in
>             freshports on the internet...
>
>             But how to handle this?  So I have jails to test my
>             eclipse on aarch64 and amd64.  It runs 14-RELEASE-p9 and
>             uses preinstalled quaterly packages - that means also the
>             "older" maven39 port.  My question is: if I would install
>             the newest packages from latest - would it fix the
>             problem?  But what happens with poudiere runs for the
>             quaterly packages.  They would need "older" maven39, or? 
>             and if I use software, I install packages from quaterly. 
>             I am a bit confused about how to proceed...
>
>             All the best, Norbert :-)
>
>             -- 
>             I love penguins at the south pole, windows in my house and
>             apples on my tree, but not in my computer :)
>             ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>         Your GH_TUPLE line defines a specific tag to use, which is now
>         the same as DISTVERSION (4.38).
>         NorbertXYZ:eclipse-maven:${DISTVERSION}:n
>
>         A possible solution is to create a new tag in github (4.38_2)
>         and use that in the main port and leave the quarterly port
>         unchanged.
>         NorbertXYZ:eclipse-maven:${DISTVERSION}_2:n
>         See: https://github.com/NorbertXYZ/eclipse-maven/tags
>
>         I hope this helps.
>
>         Regards,
>         Ronald.
>
>     -- 
>     I love penguins at the south pole, windows in my house and apples on my tree, but not in my computer :)
>
>

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