Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 06:57:26 -0800 From: Brian Gardner <openjdk@getsnappy.com> To: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com> Cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helping out with JDK 9 on BSD Message-ID: <8B9ACABA-F9B2-4288-9DB5-CA843DE48C34@getsnappy.com> In-Reply-To: <56ADE943.6020103@oracle.com> References: <56ADE7D4.8020107@oracle.com> <56ADE943.6020103@oracle.com>
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I=E2=80=99m interested in helping. I ported openjdk6 to freebsd and = also helped out with openjdk8. Brian Gardner > On Jan 31, 2016, at 3:00 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie = <magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com> wrote: >=20 > On 2016-01-31 11:54, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: >> Hi, >>=20 >> [TL;DR: I'm offering patches to compile JDK 9 on FreeBSD, but it's = not clear where to put them, or how.] >>=20 >> I'm working at Oracle on the OpenJDK build team and is responsible = for large parts of the build system of OpenJDK. Lately, I've been = playing around with FreeBSD (and other BSDs) in my free time, and I've = written a patch that will add build system support for FreeBSD, OpenBSD = and NetBSD in JDK 9 (tracked in = https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8147795). >>=20 >> I started writing this when I realized that the jdk9 branch in the = OpenJDK bsd-port repository did not contain any BSD-specific changes at = all, and the old JDK 8 changes will not readily be portable, due to = major changes in the build system between JDK 8 and JDK 9. >>=20 >> I thought it would be a no-brainer to integrate these changes into = the JDK 9 mainline, so they would be in place for whenever you guys = would start to attack porting the code base. However, some of my = collegues thought otherwise. The end result, I think, is that they = wanted to see someone (not necessarily a company, the FreeBSD = organisation for instance seemed to be okay), to step forward and say = "we take responsibility for the BSD port", and give some kind of = commitment to actually use these build changes in producing a viable = port. You can read the mail conversation here: = http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2016-January/016421.html >=20 > I forgot to add that I'm willing to help with build issues for the BSD = port, as far as my (like everybode else's) limited free time allows me. = Unfortunately, I'm still a noob at BSD internals and can't really help = with much apart from that. >=20 > /Magnus >=20 >=20 >>=20 >> An alternative to pushing this code into the JDK 9 mainline is of = course to push it to the bsd-port/jdk9 repo (given that the owners of = that repo approves), but that seems like a less favourable solution. = Having the code in the mainline does not mean that it gets tested = automatically, but it means that it will be part of e.g. refactoring, = that would otherwise break a downstream patchset. >>=20 >> I cc:ed this conversation to the bsd-port-dev@openjdk.java.net = mailing list, but never got any kind of official response there. Since = this list seems more active, I'm trying here instead. :) >>=20 >> So, I'm offering two patches here, one that applies to the build = system, is nice and clean, and possible to integrate into JDK 9 = mainline, if my collegues are convinced that someone is backing up the = BSD port. And there's a second patch, which fixes broken C/C++/Java code = and results in a product that can at least run "javac HelloWorld", but = this is not yet clean enough for integration anywere, at least not the = JDK 9 mainline. (I don't know enough of the BSD internals to fix all = problems, so there's some "#if 0" code here and there.) >>=20 >> /Magnus >>=20 >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-java@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-java-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-java@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-java@freebsd.org> mailing = list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java = <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java>; > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-java-unsubscribe@freebsd.org = <mailto:freebsd-java-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>"
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