Re: OpenJDK support

2016-02-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pjotr Prins writes: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 04:22:25PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> > We are bootstrapping with GCJ. >> >> And kudos to you Ricardo for doing the right thing. It’s much more >> confidence-inspiring than the above snippet. :-) > > Yes, it is very impressive in fact. Of co

Re: OpenJDK support

2016-02-08 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 04:22:25PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > We are bootstrapping with GCJ. > > And kudos to you Ricardo for doing the right thing. It’s much more > confidence-inspiring than the above snippet. :-) Yes, it is very impressive in fact. Of course the journey starts here. M

Re: OpenJDK support

2016-02-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > pjotr Prins writes: > >> To support the JVM we'll need to add the openjdk. >> >> Having a look at it I think it is doable. Only problem is that the >> java compiler needs to be bootstrapped with itself. >> >> In Nix they create a binary blob to bootstrap: >> >> let

Re: OpenJDK support

2016-02-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pjotr Prins writes: > To support the JVM we'll need to add the openjdk. > > Having a look at it I think it is doable. Only problem is that the > java compiler needs to be bootstrapped with itself. > > In Nix they create a binary blob to bootstrap: > > let > # !!! These should be on ni

OpenJDK support

2016-02-08 Thread Pjotr Prins
To support the JVM we'll need to add the openjdk. Having a look at it I think it is doable. Only problem is that the java compiler needs to be bootstrapped with itself. In Nix they create a binary blob to bootstrap: let # !!! These should be on nixos.org src = if glibc.system ==