From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roel Janssen Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:58:34 +0100 Message-ID: <877fh99vzp.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeJq7-000382-Ge for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 04:58:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeJq4-0007UL-7V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 04:58:35 -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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel Hello Ricardo, Thanks a lot for this patch. I succesfully upgraded the icedtea-7 to icedtea-8 package by modifying: (define-public icedtea icedtea-8). Then I succesfully compiled Picard with ant and icedtea-8 from Guix. So.. it works! Thanks again for your work on all things Java, Roel Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Guix, > > the latest icedtea-ified JDK has not yet been released, but this doesn’t > mean we can’t package it. > > Attached is a patch to add “icedtea-8” (because it provides the JDK for > Java version 1.8). It uses the upstream tarball for version 3.0.0pre09, > which I had to mirror on my own server because the Guile HTTP client > doesn’t like an invalid header in the response from > http://icedtea.classpath.org. > > The version is declared as “2.99.99-pre09” so that version “3.0.0” (when > it is finally released) will be considered an update. > > ~~ Ricardo