Re: databases/mysql-connector-java: Looks broken to me

2015-04-23 Thread Beeblebrox via freebsd-ports
I was not informed of the discussion, because as I had stated you need to cc my email should you wish that I receive notification of your answers. Anyway, the purpose of my attempt to use the port was to try and solve a long-standing problem: I cannot find a way to connect libreoffice-base to

Re: databases/mysql-connector-java: Looks broken to me

2015-04-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 2015/04/06 22:16, Mikhail T. wrote: On 04/06/15 16:00, Matthew Seaman wrote: That might be possible, but it would result in dropping a serious slice of functionality from the connector. Which functionality is it? If an old compiler is truly required at all, it can only be to generate code

Re: databases/mysql-connector-java: Looks broken to me

2015-04-07 Thread Mikhail T.
On 07.04.2015 02:41, Matthew Seaman wrote: So anyone using JDBC3 would be disappointed by our chopping it out. I have precisely zero idea how many people that might be, or indeed how much call there is for JDBC3 adaptors in general. If the difference between JDBC3 and 4 is the compiler-version

Re: databases/mysql-connector-java: Looks broken to me

2015-04-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/04/2015 14:49, Mikhail T. wrote: Can't the build.xml be patched to augment and/or drop the requirement? We might then see the actual problem in the Java source -- if any -- and patch that... That might be possible, but it would result in dropping a serious slice of functionality from the

Re: databases/mysql-connector-java: Looks broken to me

2015-04-06 Thread Mikhail T.
On 04/06/15 16:00, Matthew Seaman wrote: That might be possible, but it would result in dropping a serious slice of functionality from the connector. Which functionality is it? If an old compiler is truly required at all, it can only be to generate code to run in an old JVM. Since FreeBSD

Re: databases/mysql-connector-java: Looks broken to me

2015-04-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/04/2015 17:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/01/15 15:31, Beeblebrox via freebsd-ports wrote: I was getting indications that mysql connections through the com.mysql.jdbc driver was not working. So I searched for a test method (included below) and here are the results. * Server:

Re: Re: databases/mysql-connector-java: Looks broken to me

2015-04-06 Thread Mikhail T.
On 04/06/15 06:31, Matthew Seaman wrote: lucid-nonsense:/tmp/mysql-connector-java-5.1.35:% ant compile Buildfile: /tmp/mysql-connector-java-5.1.35/build.xml -jdk5-check: [exec] Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.5/bin/java: error=2, No such

databases/mysql-connector-java: Looks broken to me

2015-04-01 Thread Beeblebrox via freebsd-ports
I was getting indications that mysql connections through the com.mysql.jdbc driver was not working. So I searched for a test method (included below) and here are the results. * Server: mariadb100--10.0.17, jailed, tcp connection. Able to connect through other drivers using same params. *

Re: databases/mysql-connector-java: Looks broken to me

2015-04-01 Thread Beeblebrox via freebsd-ports
Thanks Matt. I forgot to mention that my make.conf has these defined (however redundant or ridiculous): JAVA_PREFERRED_PORTS= JAVA_PORT_NATIVE_OPENJDK_JDK_1_8 JAVA_PORT_VERSION= 1.8+ JAVA_DEFAULT?= 1.8+ OVERRIDE_JAVA_VERSION= 1.8+ JAVA_OS=native JAVA_VERSION=

Re: databases/mysql-connector-java: Looks broken to me

2015-04-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/01/15 15:31, Beeblebrox via freebsd-ports wrote: I was getting indications that mysql connections through the com.mysql.jdbc driver was not working. So I searched for a test method (included below) and here are the results. * Server: mariadb100--10.0.17, jailed, tcp connection. Able