Hello!

I just run a quick grep to see which files might be interesting.

We use ant-build-system in:
axoloti.scm *
bioinformatics.scm *
compression.scm *
icu4c.scm
java.scm *
libusb.scm *
music.scm *
textutlis.scm
uml.scm *
version-control.scm *
web.scm *
xml.scm

Only the ant-build system uses icedtea among build systems.

Icedtea is explicitly metioned in the ones maked with *, and:
kodi.scm
math.scm
ruby.scm

We have a definition in place where currently icedtea is defined to be
icedtea-7.
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".

Should I check which packages are affected in advance, or just go with the
build and see what does not work?


2017-11-22 18:03 GMT+01:00 Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
> > 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.
> > […]
> >>
> >> 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’s 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’d be happy if you could give this a try in a new branch.  Once we have
> > a branch we can build I’ll update the Cuirass specs on berlin.guixsd.org
> > to build the Java packages and their dependencies from the new branch.
> > Let’s base this on core-updates.
>
> OK, I'll find some time to work on this in the coming days.  I'll send
> you an update by the end of this month at the latest.
>
> --
> Chris
>