JDK 11 update

[Greg Lewis]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 09:15:42PM +0100, Michael Osipov wrote:
> Am 2019-03-08 um 19:04 schrieb Greg Lewis:
> > For those who want to try and compile it, the current commands I'm using
> > look like this:
> > 
> > env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \
> >      LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib \
> >      CC=/usr/bin/cc \
> >      CXX=/usr/bin/c++ \
> >      bash configure \
> >          --with-boot-jdk=/usr/local/openjdk11 \
> 
> Ouch, isn't this a chicken-and-egg problem here? How did you solve this 
> prolbem? I really hate that Java is not selfcontained...

See the link to the pull request I posted later in the email:

https://github.com/battleblow/openjdk-jdk11u/pull/1

> > If you are on i386/powerpc64/arm, which are supported by openjdk8, then
> > you'll need to work a lot harder to get yourself bootstrapped since there
> > is no binary.  See https://github.com/battleblow/openjdk-jdk11u/pull/1 for
> > some hints on how to bootstrap without a working JDK 11.  There will also
> > likely be errors you need to fix since it has not been compiled on these
> > platforms yet.
> > 
> 
> Does this basically mean that won't be a i386 release of OpenJDK 11 for 
> FreeBSD? What is the actual obstacle here?

The biggest known obstacle is that no one has performed the bootstrapping
procedure for OpenJDK 11 on FreeBSD/i386.

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