[Fedora-packaging] java-devel pulls in gcj, not openjdk-devel

Jussi Lehtola jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 6 16:33:03 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 10:52 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 06/06/2009 06:17 AM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > isn't nowadays openjdk-1.6.0-java-devel supposed to be the Java compiler
> > we use always?
> >
> > I just noticed that the java-devel that is supposed to be used in spec
> > files pulls in
> >
> >   java-1.5.0-gcj-devel-1.5.0.0-28.fc11.x86_64
> >
> > which made my jaxodraw compilation fail (gcj isn't supported). Shouldn't
> > the provides: java-devel be removed from java-1.5.0-gcj-devel since this
> > causes problems?
> 
> IMO, if your app can only use openjdk, then explictly
> BuildRequires: java-devel-openjdk

Yes, that's what I am using now (BR: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel, R:
java-1.6.0-openjdk), I was just wondering if the provides in gcj is a
packaging bug..
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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