[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] git-r3.eclass: Support more flexible EGIT_OVERRIDE_* APIs for user

Introduce a new, more flexible override API in git-r3, in replacement of the LIVE_* API that was pretty much a legacy of git-2. This means to solve the two major limitations of the old API: 1. The variables were based on package names without categories. Therefore, they weren't suitable whenever

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:11:11 + Roy Bamford wrote: > > You can start with gcc-5.4 with the gcj use flag. > That will bootstrap icedtea:7 > icedtea:7 will bootstrap icedtea:8 > Tested on arm64. Your likely one of the few to do that :) That is good one does not have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

Forgot something useful On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 09:50:51 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > > Otherwise yes, unless icedtea-bin exist for that arch. Boostrapping > in a post gcc-jdk/java 7 world will be difficult, If not impossible > for some archs. That is also the main

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

On 2017.11.18 04:16, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 02:40:14 + > Peter Stuge wrote: > > > William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > > > If you have any suggestions as to what I should look at to > better > > > > understand the OpenJDK build system I would very

[gentoo-dev] Eclass up for grabs: sgml-catalog.eclass

Dear all, The following eclass is up for grabs: sgml-catalog.eclass after retirement of the herd SGML long time ago. It seems it was forgotten to reassign. It is still used by a few packages https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/eclass-usage/sgml-catalog.txt and a proxied maintainer is in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

Eating spam for breakfast! Glorious Spam! http://cdn.ipernity.com/142/50/59/32265059.4aebaf91.640.jpg https://landof1words.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/sir-can-a-lot.jpg On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 09:59:15 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > > That is also the main reason for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:11:11 + Roy Bamford wrote: > You can start with gcc-5.4 with the gcj use flag. > That will bootstrap icedtea:7 > icedtea:7 will bootstrap icedtea:8 > Tested on arm64. > > With icedtea:7 going and gcc-5.4 not having a very long future, >

[gentoo-dev] OpenJDK bootstrap (Was: Java 9 on Gentoo)

Hi Roy, Roy Bamford writes: > You can start with gcc-5.4 with the gcj use flag. That will bootstrap > icedtea:7 icedtea:7 will bootstrap icedtea:8 Tested on arm64. Have my respect. It answers the question lurking in my mind for years. This opens the possibility to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] fdo-mime.eclass: Mark the eclass as deprecated

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 03:30:11AM +0100, Jonas Stein wrote: > On 19/06/17 15:20, Michał Górny wrote: > > The GNOME team has committed the xdg-utils.eclass serving exactly > > the same purpose as fdo-mime.eclass, supposedly with the goal of > > replacing it. However, it seems that they have never

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] git-r3.eclass: Support more flexible EGIT_OVERRIDE_* APIs for user

Michał Górny posted on Sat, 18 Nov 2017 10:22:34 +0100 as excerpted: > Introduce a new, more flexible override API in git-r3, in replacement of > the LIVE_* API that was pretty much a legacy of git-2. This means to > solve the two major limitations of the old API: > > 1. The variables were based