On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 03:06:47AM EST, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Am 2023-11-15 22:42, schrieb Derek Schrock: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 09:01:28AM EST, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have stuff which depends upon openjdk17 -> pkg exists in my local > > > repo. > > > Now I want to use something which needs openjdk21. So I did a > > > poudriere bulk > > > -j ... java/openjdk21 and now it builds openjdk18, openjdk19 and > > > openjdk20 > > > serially before openjdk21. > > > > > > I can understand if we need ot build 1 bootstrap, but why do we need > > > to > > > build multiple jdks sequencially to get the one I want? > > > > > > Bye, > > > Alexander. > > > > > > > This appears to be a recommendation (requirement) from the project. N-1 > > to bootstrap. > > > > https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/doc/building.md#boot-jdk-requirements > > I assumed something like that, that's the reason why I wrote "1 bootstrap" > above. If we look into the java category, we have some bootstrap ports > there, but not for all jdk versions. Can we add more bootstraps please, and > make use of them? It took about double the time to build openjdk21 than it > would really need to. Typically if you want to check out some new software, > you want to do it "now", and if it depends upon other stuff, such a long > chain of bootstrapping 4 JDKs to get the one you want is ... pulling a tooth > or two.
It seems only LTS were bootstraps are created? [1] If so given that 21 is LTS there should at least be a java/bootstrap-openjdk21. Like 241087 I would create a PR requesting that new port. [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241087
