From: Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de>
Subject: Re: NEW: databases/sqlite-jdbc
To: Kurt Miller <lists@intricatesoftware.com>
Cc: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>, ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:27:06 +0200

Hi,

that all makes sense, now the MODJAVA_JAR_DIR pointer was helpful:

 grep MODJAVA_JAR_DIR /home/ports/devel/jdk/java.port.mk


# Ports that install .jar files for public use (ie, in ${MODJAVA_JAR_DIR})
# multiple .jar files, use a ${MODJAVA_JAR_DIR}/<project_name>/ prefix.
MODJAVA_JAR_DIR   = ${MODJAVA_SHARE_DIR}/classes/

I'm going to restructure other ports accordingly, and with that,
OK sebastia@ for the sqlite-jdbc

cheers,
Sebastian

On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 11:06 PM Kurt Miller <lists@intricatesoftware.com>
wrote:

> On Sep 25, 2026, at 4:27 PM, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 2026/09/25 21:40, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> >> The only thing I wonder: you install in /usr/local/share/java/classes,
> whereas there are other
> >> ports, that install in /usr/local/share/java/<portname>, i.e. opencv4.
> >> For openjfx and sevenzipjbinding, I chose the <PORTNAME> subdirectory,
> but could put them into
> >> classes as well.
> >> For autopsy then I have this in the config file:
> >>
> -J-Djava.library.path=/usr/local/lib/sevenzipjbinding:/usr/local/share/java/opencv4:/usr/local/
> >> lib
> >>
> >> with everything in classes, it would make it shorter here, but I don't
> know, would it pick up
> >> stuff it won't need?
> >
> > There aren't strictly established standard for packages which
> > install .jars, but here are my thoughts:
> >
> > Where it's just the one jar, directly installing to
> > /usr/local/share/java/classes seems fine (and is what I'd expect).
> >
> > If there are a whole stack of classes (especially if they might
> > conflict with another port) or a self-contained piece of software
> > where it doesn't really make sense to make the jars available
> > for other software to use (examples include josm, unifi, ghidra),
> > then somewhere outside of /usr/local/share/java/classes seems a
> > better idea.
>
> Yes, that is how I see it as well. I’d only add if a jar
> or small number of jars are primarily a build depend of other
> java ports, I would expect to find them in MODJAVA_JAR_DIR
> unversioned.
>
> -Kurt
>
>

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