adding additional numbers to the Java version string

[Tony Printezis]

Hi all,

According to the Java version string spec (JEPs 223 and 322) the first part
of the version string is a sequence of numbers separated by periods. The
sequence can be of arbitrary length. However, in the OpenJDK configure
scripts, the sequence length is fixed to exactly four numbers.

For our internal builds we’d like to add at least one additional number to
the version string. Is there any interest in a change to the scripts to
allow that?

I’ve prototyped this in a generic way (can add up to 3 additional numbers,
called “extra1”, “extra2”, and “extra3”). These are set by passing
--with-version-extra(1|2|3)=… to configure. If they are not set, the
version string is of course exactly the same as it was before. I also
changed the way the value of --with-version-string=… is parsed to be able
to also extract the additional three numbers, if present.

Would this be generally helpful?

Tony

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