From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:15:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87efooc79n.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87375czhqj.fsf@elephly.net> <873756herx.fsf@gmail.com> <87y3myv7k9.fsf@elephly.net> <873756xn3m.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54437) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIB1S-0008Ex-VS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 05:15:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIB1Q-0000NG-6z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 05:15:50 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIB1P-00007x-WE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 05:15:48 -0500 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= Boskovits Cc: guix-devel Hi G=C3=A1bor, > I guess we could just flip that to icedtea-8, and check what still works. > That would flip the version in the build system also, as it uses "icedtea= ". Exactly. The call for help is really about dealing with the fallout from this change. I=E2=80=99ve attempted this some time ago when we still = had a much smaller set of Java packages, but it=E2=80=99s too much to check all= of the packages by myself. > Should I check which packages are affected in advance, or just go with th= e > build and see what does not work? For some packages it=E2=80=99s feasible to do this immediately before pushi= ng. It=E2=80=99s also good to review the weird hacks that were sometimes necess= ary, and check if they are still needed. We also need to confirm that the generated build.xml files have the appropriate =E2=80=9Csource=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Ctarget=E2=80=9D version s= pecifiers. But mostly we can just change the default =E2=80=9Cicedtea=E2=80=9D and rem= ove =E2=80=9C#:jdk ,icedtea-8=E2=80=9D from all packages. I=E2=80=99d like to avoid having to= add =E2=80=9C#:jdk ,icedtea-7=E2=80=9D to any of the packages; finding fixes would be preferra= ble. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net