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

[Kurt Miller]

On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 20:47 -0400, Bryan C. Everly wrote:
> Kurt,
> 
> 
> I'm wrapping my head around gnu autoconfigure tonight.  
> 
> 
> It looks like we need to modify the .m4 files in the common/autoconf
> directory and then it generates the generated-configure.sh script from
> there, right?

Yea, that sounds right.

>   If that's the case, I can start working on patches to the *.m4 files
> to seed the diffs you sent from generated-configure.sh if you are OK
> with that (I know we need to wait until my userid shows up on the
> contributor list before we can do any of this officially).

Sure we can share diffs here now. When your name shows up on the list, I
can start committing the ones that are ready.

> Next question - how much can we mess with the default "bsd" stuff?
> Should we be doing specific things in an "openbsd" block so as not to
> mess up the FreeBSD port (my assumption is that this mercurial tree
> builds successfully under FreeBSD - right)?

Right. For the areas where OpenBSD differs, we need to isolate those
changes from FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc. While our trees are
separate from the main tree, we aspire to keep our changes in a state
that would be acceptable and non-breaking to other platforms so they
could be merged back into the main trees.

Note that many times the generic bsd category blocks are sufficient and
there's no need to call out duplicate OpenBSD blocks when the bsd one
works.

>   I'm thinking that's how we should be operating.  If you are ok with
> that, i'll start making the necessary changes to get the common things
> in "bsd" and the things that are unique to OpenBSD in their own
> sections.

Right. We're on the same page.

> I think I can get the freetype stuff fixed (if I'm following the *.m4
> files correctly) as well as the location for giflib straightened out.

Okay. I was thinking that perhaps a try_link test would be better for
freetype libs then the current filename comparison and it likely could
be the same for all bsd.

> Finally, the myriad of --with* settings on the command line I'm
> guessing need to be baked into the *.m4 scripts if we are running on
> in OpenBSD?  If so, then I can tackle getting that to work right.

I'm not sure. Look to Linux and macos to see if those settings are
defaulted someplace. I would mimic their behavior here. Meaning if
building on linux or macos, the large set of --with settings are needed
there too, then I think we should conform to that pattern here too.

In the end an OpenBSD port makefile will set all the env vars, configure
args, etc and its not really an issue to have a large set of configure
args in general.

> What do you think?  Am I on the right track?

Yes for sure.

Regards,
-Kurt