status of OpenJDK on Haiku

[Hamish Morrison]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Humdinger <humdingerb at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, there were definitely packages on HaikuDepot at one point.
Perhaps someone deleted them because of ABI breakage - or they got
automatically deleted when the recipes stopped building.

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

A starting point would be the 'Cross-compiling' section in
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html
for anyone interested.