Bug 61741

Summary: bsd.java.mk gives wrong advice re: NEED_JAVAC
Product: Base System Reporter: stolz <stolz>
Component: javaAssignee: Ernst de Haan <znerd>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: znerd
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.9-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description stolz 2004-01-22 18:00:29 UTC
From /usr/share/Mk/bsd.java.mk:

# The default value for NEED_JAVAC is temporarily (!) YES
# This will change as soon as the affecting ports have NEED_JAVAC=YES
.               if !defined(NEED_JAVAC)
NEED_JAVAC=     NO
.               endif

Obviously NEED_JAVAC defaults to NO. Either to comment above is incorrect
or the default setting is. The comment in rev. 1.9 clearly indicates that the
default changed to NO deliberately.

Fix: 

Remove offending comment.
How-To-Repeat: Trying to use ${JAVAC} in a port-makefile without setting NEED_JAVAC to "yes" first
leaves ${JAVAC} undefined.
Comment 1 Ernst de Haan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-01-23 07:40:41 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-java->znerd

My call.
Comment 2 Ernst de Haan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-01-23 07:43:28 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Fix committed, thanks!