Compile JRE for PPC 32 bit

[Radu Andritoiu]

Hi,

Is it ok to disable "cups" ?  I see I do not have it in the tool chain.
Also is it ok to disable it from the configure script by adding
"CUPS_NOT_NEEDED=yes" ?


Thank you,
Radu


On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Radu Andritoiu <raduandritoiu at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Adrian,
>
> Thank you very much for the reply.
> I did the same thing, but added -DHEADLESS manually only where I needed
> it, not generally.
> It is  great to know I can add it in general and not have any troubles.
>
>
> Thank you again,
> Radu
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Anton Kozlov <akozlov at azul.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Radu,
>>
>> from my experience, next is enough to get headless build:
>>
>> export BUILD_HEADLESS=true
>> export BUILD_HEADLESS_ONLY=true
>> add "-DHEADLESS=true" to CFLAGS
>> ./configure --without-x --disable-headful
>>
>> Probably, some of these may be redundant... But I don't know any issues
>> so far.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anton
>>
>> On 14.02.2018 00:16, Radu Andritoiu wrote:
>> > Hello Adrian,
>> >
>> > I am almost done with compiling jdk8, so I try to succeed with this one
>> rather than switching to jdk10.
>> > I managed to compile "hotspot" target, and now I am having some trouble
>> with the "jdk" target: I need to compile a HEADLESS jre version only,
>> because the machine it will run afterwards doesn't have X11.
>> >
>> > I observed that:
>> >  - in the jdk code sources related to drawing, the "HEADLESS" define is
>> used a lot
>> >  - when building "libawt.so" the flag -DHEADLESS has no mechanism for
>> being set, so I presume that libawt.so will always be HEADFUL
>> >  - when building "libawt_headless.so" and linking "libjawt.so",
>> BUILD_HEADLESS_ONLY variable is used, but I do not see any mechanism to set
>> it
>> >
>> > I am adding the parameter "--disable-headful" when running the
>> "configure" script.
>> > And this does set:
>> >
>> >     SUPPORT_HEADFUL:=no
>> >     SUPPORT_HEADLESS:=yes
>> >     BUILD_HEADLESS:=true
>> >
>> > but does nothing to set  BUILD_HEADLESS_ONLY.
>> >
>> > Should I manually add BUILD_HEADLESS_ONLY variable in
>> Awt2dLibraries.gmk and  -DHEADLESS when compiling "libawt.so" ?
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Radu
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:26 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
>> glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de <mailto:glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de>>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Hi Radu!
>> >
>> >     I apologize for the late reply!
>> >
>> >     Yes, the Zero variant should compile natively and also supports
>> cross-builds. However, you will most likely need some patches to fix minor
>> issues with Zero to get it to build in jdk8u.
>> >
>> >     The situation is much better with jdk10 though where Zero builds
>> fine on most architectures without needing any additional patches.
>> >
>> >     Let me know if you run into a specific problem with jdk8u and I
>> will help you.
>> >
>> >     Adrian
>> >
>> >     On Feb 1, 2018, at 2:34 PM, Radu Andritoiu <raduandritoiu at gmail.com
>> <mailto:raduandritoiu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>     Hello Adrian,
>> >>
>> >>     Should jdk8u compile natively  on x86 with "zero" jvm variant?
>> >>     I was trying to do that to see if the output may help me run the
>> cross compile.
>> >>
>> >>     Thank you,
>> >>     Radu
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>     On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:36 AM, Radu Andritoiu <
>> raduandritoiu at gmail.com <mailto:raduandritoiu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>         Hello Anton,
>> >>
>> >>         Glad to hear you have a PPC 32 port of jdk8. Does it have the
>> fix for RMI vulnerability (https://access.redhat.com/sec
>> urity/cve/cve-2017-3241 <https://access.redhat.com/sec
>> urity/cve/cve-2017-3241>).
>> >>         I will tell this to my manager and ask what direction he wants
>> to go.
>> >>
>> >>         Thank you,
>> >>         Radu
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:44 PM, Anton Kozlov <
>> akozlov at azul.com <mailto:akozlov at azul.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>             Hi, All,
>> >>
>> >>             sorry, completely overlooked the thread.
>> >>
>> >>             On 25.01.2018 19:11, Volker Simonis wrote:
>> >>             > Azul is known to have a 32bit ppc port, but they havn't
>> contributed it
>> >>             > to the OpenJDK yet.
>> >>
>> >>             yes, Azul have ppc32 port of jdk8u, in SPE and FPU
>> variants.
>> >>
>> >>             Yes, we want to contribte the support to OpenJDK, but it
>> complicated.
>> >>             To reveal source code we need to make up-port to current
>> jdk development tree (11?) first, and it's heavy.
>> >>
>> >>             We have no reasonable estimates when the up-port will be
>> ready. This is also pulls us back from creating new Project, as it will be
>> out of sync with development branch of OpenJDK.
>> >>
>> >>             Thanks,
>> >>             Anton
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>
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