On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:11:11 +
Roy Bamford wrote:
> You can start with gcc-5.4 with the gcj use flag.
> That will bootstrap icedtea:7
> icedtea:7 will bootstrap icedtea:8
> Tested on arm64.
>
> With icedtea:7 going and gcc-5.4 not having a very long future,
> building icedtea for a new arch
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 09:59:15 -0500
"William L. Thomson Jr." wrote:
>
> That is also the main reason for Icedtea project exis
Forgot something useful
On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 09:50:51 -0500
"William L. Thomson Jr." wrote:
>
> Otherwise yes, unless icedtea-bin exist for that arch. Boostrapping
> in a post gcc-jdk/java 7 world will be difficult, If not impossible
> for some archs.
That is also the main reason for Icedtea pro
On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:11:11 +
Roy Bamford wrote:
>
> You can start with gcc-5.4 with the gcj use flag.
> That will bootstrap icedtea:7
> icedtea:7 will bootstrap icedtea:8
> Tested on arm64.
Your likely one of the few to do that :)
That is good one does not have to go back to 1.5, and 1.6..
On 2017.11.18 04:16, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 02:40:14 +
> Peter Stuge wrote:
>
> > William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> > > > If you have any suggestions as to what I should look at to
> better
> > > > understand the OpenJDK build system I would very much appreciate
> >
Hello again friends,
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 11:30 AM, William L. Thomson Jr.
wrote:
> Every bit contains useful technical information. Maybe make some effort
> to package or help JDK on Gentoo vs a pointless comment.
>
Thank you for the information. I hope it didn't seem like I was asking
you t
On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 02:40:14 +
Peter Stuge wrote:
> William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> > > If you have any suggestions as to what I should look at to better
> > > understand the OpenJDK build system I would very much appreciate
> > > them.
> ..
> > Build OpenJDK stand alone. Get familiar with
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> > If you have any suggestions as to what I should look at to better
> > understand the OpenJDK build system I would very much appreciate
> > them.
..
> Build OpenJDK stand alone. Get familiar with that.
It used to be that one could not build OpenJDK without already
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:41:53 -0500
"William L. Thomson Jr." wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:42:59 -0600
> Matthew Thode wrote:
> >
> > You seem to know a bit about this, has there been a bug made
> > outlining the troubles we will encounter as you know them?
>
> No
A user did file a bug for
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:07:23 -0500
NP-Hardass wrote:
> Oh come on!
>
> Triple posting to the ML?
>
> Do we really need to have another discussion about not being spammy...
> Please... Think before you post...
Yes you should think before you post!
Every bit contains useful technical informatio
On 11/17/2017 04:15 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 03:24:47 -0500
> "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote:
>>
>> The icedtea from source ebuild is a result of RedHat. The main person
>> at RedHat responsible for their open source Java is the author of
>> Icedtea. He uses Gentoo a
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 03:24:47 -0500
"William L. Thomson Jr." wrote:
>
> The icedtea from source ebuild is a result of RedHat. The main person
> at RedHat responsible for their open source Java is the author of
> Icedtea. He uses Gentoo as his development/test platform. Gentoo
> usually will have th
To really get crazy, another thing Gentoo likely won't see unless
someone steps up. OpenJ9 alternative to HotSpot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJ9
https://github.com/ibmruntimes/openj9-openjdk-jdk9
https://www.slideshare.net/DanHeidinga/j9-under-the-hood-of-the-next-open-source-jvm
--
Will
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 01:23:58 -0600
R0b0t1 wrote:
>
> I am confused. I was aware that IcedTea was a build system, but I am
> not aware as to how Ubuntu packaged OpenJDK 9.
Not sure without looking, but likely just shipping the binary of OpenJDK
http://download.java.net/java/GA/jdk9/9.0.1/binaries
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:30 AM, William L. Thomson Jr.
wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:38:09 -0600
> R0b0t1 wrote:
>>
>> Hopefully this is not a tangent, but the OpenJDK release is available
>> on Ubuntu. I have tried to understand the IcedTea build process and
>> failed, as I was hoping that i
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:38:09 -0600
R0b0t1 wrote:
>
> Hopefully this is not a tangent, but the OpenJDK release is available
> on Ubuntu. I have tried to understand the IcedTea build process and
> failed, as I was hoping that it could be packaged for Gentoo before
> the official IcedTea release. I w
Hello friends!
I am excited about Java 9. However, I am a very excitable person.
Hopefully this is not a tangent, but the OpenJDK release is available
on Ubuntu. I have tried to understand the IcedTea build process and
failed, as I was hoping that it could be packaged for Gentoo before
the offici
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:42:59 -0600
Matthew Thode wrote:
>
> You seem to know a bit about this, has there been a bug made outlining
> the troubles we will encounter as you know them?
No, I feel I am already doing more than I should to help given my past
treatment. I have been making most issues wi
On 17-11-16 15:17:15, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> Just as a heads up, pass it along. For anyone interested. It will be
> some time before Java 9 is available on Gentoo. It will take
> considerable work to get it unmasked and safe for use.
>
> Once in tree masked, it will likely be very painful
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