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 :-)
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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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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.
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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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I love penguins at the south pole, windows in my house and apples on my tree,
but not in my computer :)
