Future of OpenJDK ports in FreeBSD with time-based releases?

[Mark Raynsford]

Hello.

> As a Java user and developer on FreeBSD, I'd like to inquire how this
> change will affect the FreeBSD ports.

I'm a Java user and developer, and use Java on FreeBSD (but I don't
work on the JDK or the FreeBSD java ports).

My understanding is that the work that needs to be done only needs to
be done the once: It seems as though someone needs to add new
definitions to this file:

  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/file/a08cbfc0e4ec/common/autoconf/toolchain.m4

Otherwise, if you attempt to build the JDK on FreeBSD, the
./configure step will fail complaining that there isn't a valid
toolchain on this platform.

I don't know if there's more BSD-specific code needed in the JDK, but
I'd think that the above would be a one-off change that would apply to
all future releases (hopefully the change would get pushed upstream).

There's also this repository:

  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/jdk9/

... but it doesn't seem like anything is happening there.

-- 
Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com

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