A lot of packages fixed to build with jdk9

[Jiri Vanek]

On 10/12/2017 08:42 AM, Fridrich Strba wrote:
> Hello, good people,
> 
> In openSUSE Tumbleweed, our rolling distribution, we switched to
> OpenJDK9 as a default Java since a week before the official OpenJDK9
> release. I spent a considerable time going over different Java packages
> to make sure they build with OpenJDK9. The big chunk of the work is to
> be found here:
> 
> 	https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Java:packages
> 
> Some are really easy, just to bump the source and target levels, but
> some are result of reading thoroughly the code and understanding
> different problems.
> 
> So, if you are a distro packager and have to port packages to Java 9,
> before you waste you life, check there for eventual patches. They are
> all contributed under the license of the underlying project.
> 

Thank you very much for sharing those patches!


J.