Improving OpenJDK for FreeBSD

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

Hi Harald (and others),

Great to see that you've made it this far! Sorry for the delayed 
responses, I've been ill for a while and are starting to work through my 
backlog now.

On 2025-02-13 12:48, Harald Eilertsen wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 11:25:51AM +1000, David Holmes wrote:
>> Hi Harald,
>>
>> Can you create a PR against mainline so that we can see the scope of the
>> changes and how they have been implemented?
> Here you go:
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/23611
>
> As mentioned in the notes for the PR, this is mainly ment to get your
> feedback and as a draft to assess the scope, and to be a base for
> discussing how (and if) to proceed with the port.

This was a good move. When actually integrating any code, a different 
approach will be needed (for instance, the original writer/copyright 
holder must be clear for every line of code that should be integrated so 
we can check OCA acceptance). I do believe that a piecewise integration 
is much preferable to trying to add everything once.

That will however require us to accept that we for a while are going to 
have a port in the mainline that might not even successfully build, even 
less work. But I think that is preferable to a big massive integration.

That reasoning also indicates that maybe the first parts that should go 
in is the build system changes that are needed to even try to build the 
BSD port...

/Magnus
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