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

[Bryan C. Everly]

OK.  Sorry all.

The 5.7 release of OpenBSD came out Friday evening so I had to get some
upgrades done.  I'm going to dive back into this and see how far I get.


Thanks,
Bryan

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Kurt Miller <kurt at intricatesoftware.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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