Am 22.06.2015 um 10:50 schrieb Christoph Egger: > Hi! > > Jan Henke <Jan.Henke@taujhe.de> writes: >> Am 22.06.2015 um 09:07 schrieb Christoph Egger: >>> I've just killed openjdk-8 builds for now. It needs itself to build >>> (might just need bootstrapping using openjdk-7 -- not sure) >> as far as I recall OpenJDK-7 would work for bootstrapping. It seems we >> need that one working on FBSD. > At least the dependency says so (no help for buildds). kFreeBSD does > have an (outdated) openjdk-7 available (and I've seen patches for the > current version quite recently afair). I have no idea how far this > already works without further patches (and no immediate plan to > test). Once we have it bootstrapped the autobuilders should be able to > continue building > >> Also the Debian Java team was discussing the greater issue of Java >> support across all platforms. Since gcj is no longer a working solution. >> Essentially for any Java application to work we need OpenJDK now. > Might be something kFreeBSD people are interested in talking about > during DebConf. If we want to get back into stretch we'll need java for > sure. > > Christoph > Hi Christoph, the thread in question is this one: https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2015/05/msg00071.html I cannot find the exact mail any more, but I recall Mathias said something about needing an OpenJDK to bootstrap OpenJDK builds, I am not sure though whether that was needed for OpenJDK-8 already or just for OpenJDK-9. I fully agree a working and up to date OpenJDK is quite essential for FBSD. Best regards, Jan P.S.: I am on list. ;)
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