Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Thanks a lot for this patch. I succesfully upgraded the icedtea-7 to >> icedtea-8 package by modifying: (define-public icedtea icedtea-8). >> >> Then I succesfully compiled Picard with ant and icedtea-8 from Guix. >> So.. it works! > > That’s great! With the latest version of the “ant-build-system” (patch > will be sent out today) you can just do > > (arguments > `(#:jdk ,icedtea-8 > #:ant ,some-other-ant)) > > to specify a different package for Ant or the JDK. You would not need > to override the value of “icedtea” (which is set to “icedtea-7” for now > as this is the latest supported release).
That looks brilliant to me. Looking forward to the patch. Thanks for your work! Kind regards, Roel
