Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 12:00:19 +0100 From: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com> To: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helping out with JDK 9 on BSD Message-ID: <56ADE943.6020103@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <56ADE7D4.8020107@oracle.com> References: <56ADE7D4.8020107@oracle.com>
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On 2016-01-31 11:54, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > Hi, > > [TL;DR: I'm offering patches to compile JDK 9 on FreeBSD, but it's not > clear where to put them, or how.] > > I'm working at Oracle on the OpenJDK build team and is responsible for > large parts of the build system of OpenJDK. Lately, I've been playing > around with FreeBSD (and other BSDs) in my free time, and I've written > a patch that will add build system support for FreeBSD, OpenBSD and > NetBSD in JDK 9 (tracked in > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8147795). > > I started writing this when I realized that the jdk9 branch in the > OpenJDK bsd-port repository did not contain any BSD-specific changes > at all, and the old JDK 8 changes will not readily be portable, due to > major changes in the build system between JDK 8 and JDK 9. > > I thought it would be a no-brainer to integrate these changes into the > JDK 9 mainline, so they would be in place for whenever you guys would > start to attack porting the code base. However, some of my collegues > thought otherwise. The end result, I think, is that they wanted to see > someone (not necessarily a company, the FreeBSD organisation for > instance seemed to be okay), to step forward and say "we take > responsibility for the BSD port", and give some kind of commitment to > actually use these build changes in producing a viable port. You can > read the mail conversation here: > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2016-January/016421.html I forgot to add that I'm willing to help with build issues for the BSD port, as far as my (like everybode else's) limited free time allows me. Unfortunately, I'm still a noob at BSD internals and can't really help with much apart from that. /Magnus > > An alternative to pushing this code into the JDK 9 mainline is of > course to push it to the bsd-port/jdk9 repo (given that the owners of > that repo approves), but that seems like a less favourable solution. > Having the code in the mainline does not mean that it gets tested > automatically, but it means that it will be part of e.g. refactoring, > that would otherwise break a downstream patchset. > > I cc:ed this conversation to the bsd-port-dev@openjdk.java.net mailing > list, but never got any kind of official response there. Since this > list seems more active, I'm trying here instead. :) > > So, I'm offering two patches here, one that applies to the build > system, is nice and clean, and possible to integrate into JDK 9 > mainline, if my collegues are convinced that someone is backing up the > BSD port. And there's a second patch, which fixes broken C/C++/Java > code and results in a product that can at least run "javac > HelloWorld", but this is not yet clean enough for integration anywere, > at least not the JDK 9 mainline. (I don't know enough of the BSD > internals to fix all problems, so there's some "#if 0" code here and > there.) > > /Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-java@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-java-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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