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 16:24:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87bn6l596h.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877fh99vzp.fsf@gnu.org> 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]:57033) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeOvx-0003nu-49 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:24:57 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeOvs-0005KO-38 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:24:57 -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 Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Roel Janssen writes: > >> 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! > > That’s great! With the latest version of the “ant-build-system” (patch > will be sent out today) you can just do > > (arguments > `(#:jdk ,icedtea-8 > #:ant ,some-other-ant)) > > to specify a different package for Ant or the JDK. You would not need > to override the value of “icedtea” (which is set to “icedtea-7” for now > as this is the latest supported release). That looks brilliant to me. Looking forward to the patch. Thanks for your work! Kind regards, Roel