[arch-general] OpenJFX package out-of-date

[Guillaume ALAUX]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Guillaume ALAUX
<guillaume at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Kyle Laker <kyle at kylelaker.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The extra/java-openjfx package has been flagged out-of-date since
>> 2016-09-13 and is stuck at verison 8u76-b03. This can result in
>> runtime warnings for some JavaFX applications whose FXML was created
>> specifying a newer API version, potentially causing confusion for
>> users because `java -version` would return the newest version
>> (1.8.0_121).
>>
>> The following patch (created using `svn diff`) of the PKGBUILD should
>> bring it up to match the latest version of extra/jdk8-openjdk. No
>> changes should be necessary for the gradle.properties file.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kyle
>>
>>
>> Patch:
>>
>> Index: PKGBUILD
>> ===================================================================
>> --- PKGBUILD    (revision 287772)
>> +++ PKGBUILD    (working copy)
>> @@ -12,11 +12,11 @@
>>  pkgbase=java-${_libname}
>>  pkgname=('java-openjfx' 'java-openjfx-doc' 'java-openjfx-src')
>>  _java_ver=8
>> -_jdk_update=76
>> -_jdk_build=03
>> +_jdk_update=121
>> +_jdk_build=13
>>  _hgtag=${_java_ver}u${_jdk_update}-b${_jdk_build}
>>  pkgver=${_java_ver}.u${_jdk_update}
>> -pkgrel=2
>> +pkgrel=1
>>  pkgdesc='Java OpenJFX 8 client application platform (open-source
>> implementation of JavaFX)'
>>  arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
>>  url='https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Main'
>
>
> Thanks. I will try to make some time this week to update it.

Ok so I finally managed to get OpenJFX to build.

It was a bit more complicated than the patch you provided [0] [1] [2].
I thought you had tested it but I doubt it as makepkg wouldn't even
download the sources.

[0] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/java-openjfx&id=512bfaf1653042ce6ead2b5cecdc99942ff25627
[1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/java-openjfx&id=e1947ee35f9d15f1cbddef189c027005eada7424
[2] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/java-openjfx&id=8eb70ae9f14e3c87c5f5b5ed7501307ae8ca218e