status of OpenJDK on Haiku

[Humdinger]

On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 19:44:02 GMT+2, Hamish Morrison wrote:
> I don't have any myself, but there should be many hpkgs of 1.7 around
> (maybe even 1.8). Isn't there one on Haiku Depot?

Nope. The buildbots that populate HaikuDepot create all packages from 
working recipes. The 1.7 recipes try to download from the not anymore 
available dropbox URLs, the 1.8 relies on an installed 1.7.

> If there are no working JDKs to use I think the best bet would be to
> cross-compile from Linux. Support for cross-compiling is supposedly
> much improved in JDK 1.8, so it might not be too tricky.

Never done that before and wouldn't know how to start trying this...
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