[aarch64-port-dev ] A binary download for aarch64.

[Terje Kvernes]

> On 1 Sep 2020, at 10:49, Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2020-08-31 at 20:15 +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I am currently working on expanding EasyBuilds[1] support for ARM in the HPC space. One of the hurdles I have come across is that EasyBuild on both x86_64 and POWER install OpenJDK as a binary. On x86_64 this is done by fetching and installing https://download.java.net/java/GA/jdk11/9/GPL/openjdk-11.0.2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz <https://download.java.net/java/GA/jdk11/9/GPL/openjdk-11.0.2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz>;, linked from https://jdk.java.net/archive/ <https://jdk.java.net/archive/>;.
>> 
>> Now, I have been unable to find a similar service for aarch64, and I was hoping I had simply missed something. Is there such a binary available for aarch64?
>> 
> 
> We provide JDK 11 aarch64 vanilla OpenJDK builds here:
> https://adoptopenjdk.net/upstream.html?variant=openjdk11&ga=ga
> 
> That's the closest equivalent (for OpenJDK 11u) to what Oracle does
> with jdk.java.net for more recent JDKs.
> 
> Unfortunately, there are no vanilla OpenJDK 8u binaries for Aarch64 as
> the port landed in mainline JDK with the release of JDK 9. So any
> downstream builders would have to build from the aarch64-port 8u tree.
> There are a variety of downstream builds of OpenJDK 8u aarch64 which
> would suit your needs. For example the ones from AdoptOpenJDK (or
> Eclipse Adoptium) here:
> https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html?variant=openjdk8&jvmVariant=hotspot
> 
> Note the two links are not the same. The former are upstream builds,
> the latter is a downstream curation of OpenJDK. Depending on what you
> need both might work.


Thank you so much for this. I will test both options and see what we end up using. 

Thank you again!
-- 
Terje Kvernes