Problems with JDK8 build on Ubuntu?

[Ted Neward]

Yeah, I’ve got build-dep and openjdk-8. I’ll have a look at the source, but this begs a question: Why hasn’t it been backported to the JDK8 repo, if it’s a known fix?

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On 11/23/17, 2:32 AM, "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

    Hi Ted!
    
    On 11/23/2017 11:23 AM, Ted Neward wrote:
    > When I run it, there’s a problem about OS version detection, which I found a fix
    > for, but then it appears that there’s some kind of syntax error in a generate makefile.
    > Before I attach a ridiculously long logfile, does anybody have a quick fix or know where
    > I should go to get the fix?
    
    I suggest having a look at the Debian packaging source for the openjdk-8 package
    which is also used in Ubuntu (the maintainer is Matthias Klose in both cases) [1].
    
    Have a look at the patches in debian/patches as well as the build script in debian/
    rules. This should give you the right idea on what is necessary to OpenJDK 8 build
    on Ubuntu.
    
    Please also make sure you have the necessary build dependencies installed:
    
    # apt build-dep openjdk-8
    
    Adrian
    
    > [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openjdk/openjdk/openjdk8/files
    
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