Feature #13083
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Enable gate builds with OpenJDK 11
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Description
The Java world is moving on, and JDK8 is getting rather old.
It would be beneficial to support gate builds with a newer version in addition to 8: JDK 11, as an LTS release, would appear to be the ideal target.
Queries haven't yet turned up anyone using a version of Java older than 8, so it seems unnecessary to try and support older versions as well.
Updated by Joshua M. Clulow over 3 years ago
Looking at the packages available in OpenIndiana, it seems that they only currently have OpenJDK 7 & 8 under:
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/tree/oi/hipster/components/runtime/
On the other hand, OmniOS has OpenJDK 11 here:
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/tree/master/build/openjdk11
I believe you've been maintaining JDK builds for a while, as well, Peter. Do you have a best set of patches, or some sense of what we might do to harmonise JDK availability throughout the distributions a bit more, as we have done with GCC?
Updated by Peter Tribble over 3 years ago
Joshua M. Clulow wrote:
Looking at the packages available in OpenIndiana, it seems that they only currently have OpenJDK 7 & 8 under:
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/tree/oi/hipster/components/runtime/
Yes, but 8 is the default.
On the other hand, OmniOS has OpenJDK 11 here:
https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/tree/master/build/openjdk11
Yes, and OmniOS gave me a little nudge to get this done.
So distributions are at least at 8; some have 11 as well.
And I queried whether anyone was still using 7.
I believe you've been maintaining JDK builds for a while, as well, Peter. Do you have a best set of patches, or some sense of what we might do to harmonise JDK availability throughout the distributions a bit more, as we have done with GCC?
I believe OmniOS used my patches as is. But yes, it might make sense to split the primary copy out into a separate repo.
Updated by Andy Fiddaman over 3 years ago
FWIW - the OmniOS OpenJDK11 package is directly using the patches that Peter kindly provided in https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Tee40bb1913d3a634-M7fb362f818baad265bd3ec96/patches-for-openjdk-with-gcc
and the original bootstrap was done with the provided artefacts.
Updated by Peter Tribble about 3 years ago
In Java 11, javah is no more. It is claimed that 'javac -h' is the replacement, but this isn't quite true, as it does not allow either the specification of the output file name nor does it merge the header declarations into a single file. The simplest approach is then to check the Java 8 generated headers into the gate, rather than create them anew every build. I have, however, verified that the actual header contents that Java 11 gives are equivalent.
With Java 8, the build should be unchanged - and wsdiff shows that the jni shared objects created are identical, as they should be.
Updated by Electric Monk about 3 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit 51396a8ee7fb52fe0ab33bfe7b4f495ad431904a
commit 51396a8ee7fb52fe0ab33bfe7b4f495ad431904a
Author: Peter Tribble <peter.tribble@gmail.com>
Date: 2020-09-18T18:31:28.000Z
13083 Enable gate builds with OpenJDK 11
Reviewed by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Reviewed by: Andy Fiddaman <andy@omniosce.org>
Reviewed by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Approved by: Joshua M. Clulow <josh@sysmgr.org>