Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09

[Roel Janssen]

Hello Ricardo,

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!

Thanks again for your work on all things Java,
Roel


Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> the latest icedtea-ified JDK has not yet been released, but this doesn’t
> mean we can’t package it.
>
> Attached is a patch to add “icedtea-8” (because it provides the JDK for
> Java version 1.8).  It uses the upstream tarball for version 3.0.0pre09,
> which I had to mirror on my own server because the Guile HTTP client
> doesn’t like an invalid header in the response from
> http://icedtea.classpath.org.
>
> The version is declared as “2.99.99-pre09” so that version “3.0.0” (when
> it is finally released) will be considered an update.
>
> ~~ Ricardo