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

[Baesken, Matthias]

  *   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.

Hi Magnus ,  for OpenJDK11  (11u)  we might  mention  the packages .   For the  jdk/jdk   it probably does not make much sense and the URLs are the way to go .

Best regards, Matthias


From: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>
Sent: Freitag, 1. März 2019 14:46
To: Baesken, Matthias <matthias.baesken at sap.com>; 'build-dev at openjdk.java.net' <build-dev at openjdk.java.net>
Cc: Simonis, Volker <volker.simonis at sap.com>; Zeller, Arno <arno.zeller at sap.com>
Subject: Re: RFR: 8219920: dependency help output in configure-step : support zypper tool

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 help.m4 help output ,   the mentioning of openjdk-8-jdk  in the various package-installer help outputs  seems to be outdated and  misleading to me :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