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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:09:26 +0100
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Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> some of our Java packages now only build with icedtea-8.  To avoid
>> incompatibilities we should make icedtea-8 the default and make sure
>> that all packages still build with that version.
>>
>> Who would like to help with this?  We can do this in a separate branch
>> and build it on berlin.guixsd.org.
[=E2=80=A6]
>
> I'd like to help with this.  Do we just need to update various java
> package definitions to use the most recent icedtea-8, and debug any
> issues that might arise?  Or did you mean something else?

Yes, that=E2=80=99s pretty much it.  I remember that some of the early Java
packages I added could not be built with icedtea-8.  In those cases it
may be sufficient to set the compiler source version to 1.7 while still
using icedtea-8.

I=E2=80=99d be happy if you could give this a try in a new branch.  Once we=
 have
a branch we can build I=E2=80=99ll update the Cuirass specs on berlin.guixs=
d.org
to build the Java packages and their dependencies from the new branch.
Let=E2=80=99s base this on core-updates.

--
Ricardo

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