Re: [arch-general] time to drop openjdk6 ?

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:46:05PM +0100, Nabil Freij wrote:

What about building an android rom image? I believe that still needs openjdk6?

Nab

On 14 June 2012 19:37, David C. Rankin wrote:

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On 06/13/2012 12:32 PM, Andreas Radke wrote:

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Oracle has declared JRE/JDK7 the preferred one over JRE/JDK6. So it should be now stable enough to replace Java6 for everyone also in the OpenJDK community releases.

I'm asking if there's somebody still in the need to use openjdk6 for certain apps that fail to run with openjdk7? If so please report it upstream.

I know there's are still some commercial java apps that will only run on the Oracle JRE6 or JRE7 but I ask only if somebody prefers openjdk6 in our repos over java7-openjdk.

I'd like to drop openjdk6 when the next security update will be released if possible.

-Andy

Andy,

The only issue I've run into lately is the build requirement of 'libhpi'. I can't recall which package needed it, but it was only available in openjdk6 and is dropped from 7. I don't know how many other libs differ between 6 & 7, but for all packages that need libhpi openjdk6 is still required.

-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

as another point on this... don't you also need gcc 4.4 as well? I am fairly certain you cannot build it with gcc 4.7 and possibly not 4.6