On 30/03/14 21:36, Guillaume Alaux wrote: > On 30 March 2014 11:46, Andreas Radke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Am Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:21:25 +0200 >> schrieb Guillaume ALAUX <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> A new major version of Java went out recently [0]: "OpenJDK 8" but we >>> do not have a package for it (for the following reason) and some >>> Archers are asking questions [1] or flagging our openjdk7 package as >>> out of date: >>> >>> All Linux distros - including Arch - build OpenJDK using the IcedTea >>> project [2]. Its goal is to cleanly build OpenJDK from Oracle, bring >>> some more feature and it **was** also to re-implement closed source >>> parts. I expected IcedTea to quickly release a version for OpenJDK8 >>> but it seems this is not their first priority [3] (which I totally >>> understand). Nowadays there is no closed source part anymore in >>> OpenJDK, and the license is clearly "GPL with classpath exception" >>> which is a standard in the Java world. >>> >>> I have been working on a package based on OpenJDK8 built from source >>> but without IcedTea that I think would fit to our repos. I still have >>> some work for it to be released but I would be in favor of pushing >>> this "OpenJDK without IcedTea" to extra until IcedTea v3.0 stable is >>> out and could be used to build/augment our package. >>> >>> Any thought/objection/remark about? >> >> How about using icedtea master bzr shots to build openjdk8 until they >> publish a release? >> >> -Andy > > I should have mentionned: I tried that. It turns out the last > pre-release of IcedTea points at source tarballs (hotspot, jaxp, > corba, ...) that are not available anymore. One solution there could be > to get in touch with IcedTea and ask them to put these tarballs back > or create a new pre-release. Or to create our own tarballs. This > should not be too long to get all this to build. >
You can just use the bzr source directly in the PKGBUILD, even providing a revision for consistent builds. Allan
