Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

2017-11-17 Thread R0b0t1
Hello again friends, On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 11:30 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Every bit contains useful technical information. Maybe make some effort > to package or help JDK on Gentoo vs a pointless comment. > Thank you for the information. I hope it didn't seem like I was asking you t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

2017-11-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 02:40:14 + Peter Stuge wrote: > William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > > If you have any suggestions as to what I should look at to better > > > understand the OpenJDK build system I would very much appreciate > > > them. > .. > > Build OpenJDK stand alone. Get familiar with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

2017-11-17 Thread Peter Stuge
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > If you have any suggestions as to what I should look at to better > > understand the OpenJDK build system I would very much appreciate > > them. .. > Build OpenJDK stand alone. Get familiar with that. It used to be that one could not build OpenJDK without already

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cmake + ninja vs autotools

2017-11-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 02:52:33 +0100 Francesco Riosa wrote: > > In my user opinion this has no place in a ebuild unless upstream > clearly say to use (or evidently use) ninja as it main generator. I think Gentoo deviates from upstreams fairly considerably at times. I see this as case where Gentoo c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cmake + ninja vs autotools

2017-11-17 Thread Francesco Riosa
On 18/11/2017 00:35, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 11/16/2017 02:27 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >> It maybe worth considering switching the default generator in the >> cmake-utils.eclass from the default of emake to ninja. >> >> - : ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR:=emake} >> + : ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_

[gentoo-dev] Re: cmake + ninja vs autotools

2017-11-17 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 11/16/2017 02:27 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > It maybe worth considering switching the default generator in the > cmake-utils.eclass from the default of emake to ninja. > > - : ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR:=emake} > + : ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR:=ninja} > > For those with cmake ebuilds y

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] git-r3.eclass: Support checking out specific subdirectories

2017-11-17 Thread Michał Górny
Support limiting the git checkout to specific subdirectories of the git tree, using 'git checkout ... -- ...' The main use case for this is doing partial checkouts of very large repositories where only a small subset of files is necessary. Doing partial checkouts can save both time and disk space w

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] GLEP 74 post-Council review update

2017-11-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:19:54AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > [snip] > Abstract > > > This GLEP extends the Manifest file format to cover full-tree file > integrity and authenticity checks.The format aims to be future-proof, Missing a space after the first sentence, between "checks." a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

2017-11-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:41:53 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:42:59 -0600 > Matthew Thode wrote: > > > > You seem to know a bit about this, has there been a bug made > > outlining the troubles we will encounter as you know them? > > No A user did file a bug for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

2017-11-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:07:23 -0500 NP-Hardass wrote: > Oh come on! > > Triple posting to the ML? > > Do we really need to have another discussion about not being spammy... > Please... Think before you post... Yes you should think before you post! Every bit contains useful technical informatio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

2017-11-17 Thread NP-Hardass
On 11/17/2017 04:15 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 03:24:47 -0500 > "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: >> >> The icedtea from source ebuild is a result of RedHat. The main person >> at RedHat responsible for their open source Java is the author of >> Icedtea. He uses Gentoo a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

2017-11-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 03:24:47 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > > The icedtea from source ebuild is a result of RedHat. The main person > at RedHat responsible for their open source Java is the author of > Icedtea. He uses Gentoo as his development/test platform. Gentoo > usually will have th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

2017-11-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
To really get crazy, another thing Gentoo likely won't see unless someone steps up. OpenJ9 alternative to HotSpot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJ9 https://github.com/ibmruntimes/openj9-openjdk-jdk9 https://www.slideshare.net/DanHeidinga/j9-under-the-hood-of-the-next-open-source-jvm -- Will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Java 9 on Gentoo

2017-11-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 01:23:58 -0600 R0b0t1 wrote: > > I am confused. I was aware that IcedTea was a build system, but I am > not aware as to how Ubuntu packaged OpenJDK 9. Not sure without looking, but likely just shipping the binary of OpenJDK http://download.java.net/java/GA/jdk9/9.0.1/binaries