Bug 161484

Summary:	Reason for openoffice-2.0.4 depending on jre/jdk-1.5 and not 1.6?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Patrick <mail>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor	CC:	java
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Patrick 2007-01-11 08:52:33 UTC

Well, title says it all. As sun-jdk/jre-1.6.* are in ~x86, and openoffice-2.0.4 is, too, I don't see a reason for having openoffice-2.0.4 depending on the 1.5 java. Both should be possible - depend on 1.5 or 1.6, at least one of them must be installed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have sun-jdk-1.6* and sun-jre-1.6* installed
2. Try to merge openoffice

Actual Results:  
emerge wants to pull in slotted sun-jdk-1.5* and sun-jre-1.5*

Expected Results:  
emerge is happy with java 1.6, because openoffice-2.0.4 works perfectly with it, afaik.

Comment 1 Patrick 2007-01-11 09:10:43 UTC

Sorry, now that I actually tried it myself, I found this during configure:

checking whether to build with Java support... yes
checking the installed JDK... checked (JDK 1.6.0)
checking for target java bytecode version... 1.6
configure: error: 1.6 is not supported java bytecode version!

Strange, because I ran openoffice-bin-2.0.x with Java 1.6* iirc, without any problem.

Comment 2 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-05 20:32:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
>
> Strange, because I ran openoffice-bin-2.0.x with Java 1.6* iirc, without any
> problem.
> 

Although Sun strives to be binary compatible with earlier releases, does not mean that their API would be. In your case it's very much safe to run binaries compiled with 1.5 on 1.6 though I am guessing OO works just fine with 1.6 and they mean to catch <1.5 with this test.