Need OpenJDK to be used on PowerPC for our products.

[David Holmes]

On 7/01/2022 5:21 am, tim.bell at oracle.com wrote:
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> Subject:     RE: Need OpenJDK to be used on PowerPC for our products.
> Date:     Thu, 6 Jan 2022 19:16:10 +0000
> From:     Dipendu Ghosh <dipendu.ghosh at keysight.com>
> To:     mailman-owner
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am an Engineer from Keysight Technologies. In Keysight, we have a few 
> products where we use Java. At present we are using Java distribution 
> from Oracle. Since there is some licensing issue raised by Oracle we 
> need to move to OpenJDK distributions.
> 
> We have a requirement where we need to deploy Java 8 on the PowerPC 
> processor and Java is not readily available on this particular platform. 
> Will it be possible if you can provide us with Open JDK which can be 
> used on the PowerPC processor?

The AdoptOpenJDK project provides such builds:

https://adoptium.net/releases.html?variant=openjdk8

Cheers,
David
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> I am trying to follow the steps to compile OpenJDK for PPC following the 
> link https://openjdk.java.net/groups/build/doc/building.html but I am 
> stuck at cross compilation. Any help in this regard will be highly 
> appreciated.
> 
> Will be eagerly waiting to hear back from you on a positive note.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Dipendu Ghosh
> 
> Senior Software Engineer II,
> 
> Keysight Technologies
> 
> dipendu.ghosh at keysight.com
>