Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> some of our Java packages now only build with icedtea-8.  To avoid
>> incompatibilities we should make icedtea-8 the default and make sure
>> that all packages still build with that version.
>>
>> Who would like to help with this?  We can do this in a separate branch
>> and build it on berlin.guixsd.org.
[…]
>
> I'd like to help with this.  Do we just need to update various java
> package definitions to use the most recent icedtea-8, and debug any
> issues that might arise?  Or did you mean something else?

Yes, that’s pretty much it.  I remember that some of the early Java
packages I added could not be built with icedtea-8.  In those cases it
may be sufficient to set the compiler source version to 1.7 while still
using icedtea-8.

I’d be happy if you could give this a try in a new branch.  Once we have
a branch we can build I’ll update the Cuirass specs on berlin.guixsd.org
to build the Java packages and their dependencies from the new branch.
Let’s base this on core-updates.

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Ricardo

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