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

[Kurt Miller]

No need to be sorry. Thanks for taking an interest in the porting
effort.

-Kurt

On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 13:18 -0400, Bryan C. Everly wrote:
> 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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