RFR: 8219920: dependency help output in configure-step : support zypper tool

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2019-03-01 09:48, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
> Btw.  Speaking about  help.m4 help output ,   the mentioning of openjdk-8-jdk  in the various package-installer help outputs  seems to be outdated and  misleading to me :
>
>    88 apt_help() {
>    89   case $1 in
>
>     . . .
>    94     openjdk)
>    95       PKGHANDLER_COMMAND="sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk" ;;
>    96     alsa)
>    97       PKGHANDLER_COMMAND="sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev" ;;
>
> I  think  we would need   jdk11 by  now (or soon jdk12, but  I am not sure about package  availability at the various distros for  12).

I agree. It's a bit of a problem, because the availability of the N-1 
JDK needed to compile is not regularly available through the normal 
distro package system, as other dependencies are.

I suspect we should stop referring to using the system package installer 
for the boot jdk, and instead point to http://jdk.java.net for the core 
platforms, and https://adoptopenjdk.net/ for the rest.

/Magnus

>
> Best regards, Matthias
>
>
>
> From: Baesken, Matthias
> Sent: Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2019 13:53
> To: 'build-dev at openjdk.java.net' <build-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Cc: Zeller, Arno <arno.zeller at sap.com>; Simonis, Volker <volker.simonis at sap.com>
> Subject: RFR: 8219920: dependency help output in configure-step : support zypper tool
>
> Hello, please review the following  change .
>
> Currently  the  configure-step  outputs  help  for  a number of  packages + related installation calls  in case of missing dependencies  (like cups / alsa etc.) .
> This help output step   covers a few  tools (like apt-get).
>
>
> However the OpenSUSE / SLES tool zypper  is not supported .
> This  change adds  output for  zypper .
>
> Bug/webrev:
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> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8219920
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8219920.0/
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>
> Thanks, Matthias