Hi - is there a group of people working on OpenJDK 8 for OpenBSD?

[Bryan C. Everly]

Kurt,

Thank you!  This is incredibly helpful.  Also, I think I win the dummy
prize because a light just turned on in my head that I should be using the
jdk8u/jdk8u branch, not the jdk8/jdk8 one.

Duh.


Thanks,
Bryan

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Kurt Miller <kurt at intricatesoftware.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 15:10 -0400, Bryan C. Everly wrote:
> > Makes sense to me.  I totally understand what you are saying about
> > compiling vs. actually making it work.  I'm just trying to get a feel
> > for how big the "bread box" is (i.e. how much work am I signing up
> > for).  Once I understand the specific hacks I had to do in order to
> > get it compiling, I'll be going back and making them correctly.  I
> > appreciate what you are saying (I maintained a proprietary, multi
> > platform GUI programming language written entirely in C++ at a
> > previous job and can't tell you how difficult it is to trace a bug
> > that shows up in the end-user code back to the interpreter).
>
> One way to get an idea about the OpenBSD specific parts would be to
> compare jdk7u/jdk7u to bsd-port/bsd-port as follows:
>
> hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u
> cd jdk7u
> sh get_source.sh
> cd ..
> hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port
> cd bsd-port
> sh get_source.sh
> diff -uNpr -x build -x .hg\* -x \*.orig -x .hg -x .jcheck ../jdk7u .
> > ../jdk7u-vs-bsd-port.diff
>
> This is shows the complete set of changes from Oracle's code base to our
> code base for OpenJDK7. Greg and perhaps others have ported this over to
> bsd-port/jdk8, so most of that work is done. Taking a quick peak at the
> OpenBSD specific parts and I'm surprised how little is left. At one time
> there was quite a bit of OpenBSD specific code needed. Hmm, actually I
> just noticed some of our bsd-port changes make it into jdk7u already, so
> this diff doesn't show all of the needed changes. I guess the next best
> thing would be to do:
>
> cd bsd-port
> grep OpenBSD -IR .
>
> This will get you pointed at the changes that were needed for OpenBSD in
> OpenJDK 7. I think you will find that much of it was ported forward into
> bsd-port/jdk8 when FreeBSD ported over to jdk8.
>
> Some of the most critical code to get right lives in:
>
> ./hotspot/src/os/bsd/vm/
> and
> ./hotspot/src/os_cpu/bsd_x86/vm/
>
> Problems in these areas generally leave you with a jdk that just doesn't
> work. One good general test of the jdk is to build it, copy out the
> resulting jdk image and use it to bootstrap the next build.
>
> > On the agreement front, I'll double-check with my company to be
> > certain they won't object to me signing it (we push upstream patches
> > to most of the Open Source projects we use so I don't think it will be
> > a problem) and get it sent over.  I created an account with the
> > username 'bceverly' that I'll reference in the document when I send it
> > in.
>
> Thanks. Let me know when you've sent it in so I can be on the lookout
> for your name showing up on the OCA list.
>
> Regards,
> -Kurt
>
>
>
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