Hello,
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:43:59PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Andrew Overholt (overholt(a)redhat.com) said:
> * Andrew Haley <aph(a)redhat.com> [2009-05-05 10:51]:
> > The best defaults for koji are probably gcj on non-x86 machines and
> > openjdk on x86 machines.
>
> If I say "yum install java-devel" what gets installed? How is it
> determined?
Via the comps file. The current java development group is attached. By
default, installing the group gets you the 'mandatory' and 'default'
packages.
The comps file does not have arch-specific bits, so doing gcj on
non-x86 and openjdk on x86 isn't really practical, without a lot
of metapackages.
this explanation sort of confuses me. The current situation really
*is* what Andrew Haley proposed.
I guess that though the comps file does not have arch-specific bits,
the installation is determined by arch-specific dependencies in the
packages.
That was exactly what has brought my attention to this:
the differences between the two java's (e.g. that jni.h is installed
to the default include path by gcj but not by openjdk, different
javadocs) make the good old generic
BuildRequires: java-devel
very problematic, so I had to change it to
BuildRequires: java-1.5.0-gcj-devel
Well, my package builds fine with gcj and my conscience is clear as I
have reported this, so all is fine. :-)
Stepan