Port of JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port to jdk8u
Stephanie Crater
scrater at microsoft.com
Thu Apr 28 17:16:09 UTC 2022
Hi,
Would the community be open to a port of JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port [1]/JDK-8247589 [2] to OpenJDK jdk8u? A backport of JDK-8247589 to 11u has recently been integrated by BellSoft, and many OpenJDK vendors (BellSoft Liberica, Azul Zulu, Amazon Corretto) provide a jdk8 for Alpine Linux. We believe there is sufficient user demand for Alpine/musl support on jdk8u, but would be interested in the opinions of other vendors on this as well.
Microsoft is part of the Eclipse Adoptium Working Group and has recently trialed a patch which was applied to the 8u322 tag on the jdk8u source tree (for Eclipse Temurin binary production)[3]. That 8u322 based binary passes builds on all platforms (i.e. No regressions on other platforms) and the AQAVit test suite. The Eclipse Temurin Compliance group also reported that the TCK passed.
We would be willing to maintain Alpine Linux in jdk8u but would prefer that there is broad support. Please let me know what you think or if there are any concerns you may have regarding the proposal of this backport.
Thanks,
Stephanie
[1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386
[2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8247589
[3] https://github.com/adoptium/jdk8u/pull/9
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