Bug 438069 (openjdk-epel)

This is to track progress on getting OpenJDK Java to EPEL.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #433070 +++

-- Additional comment from erik-fedora on 2008-03-11 12:09 EST --
Would it be possible to also add this package to EPEL5? 

-- Additional comment from lkundrak on 2008-03-12 10:48 EST --
Erik: Currently it depends on lesstif (has to be branched for EPEL, not a big
deal), freetype >= 2.3.0 (not a BR, but complains during the build. probably
would work even with older one that's in RHEL?), and newer jpackage-utils and
tzdata-java than are in RHEL. Probably there can be a way found to work this
around, I'll experiment a bit when my initial build is done (and will publish a
repo with this, if anyone's interested).

Moreover, it can be bootstrapped with gcj-1.5.0, but only 1.4.2 is avaliable.
This can be probably worked around by manually adding java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel
to the EPEL build root. I am bootstrapping with one from f9 and it seems to be
sufficient.

-- Additional comment from lkundrak on 2008-03-12 17:01 EST --
Erik: Here's my build of openjdk for RHEL-5, with packages that are not in EPEL:
[1]. Dependencies were grabbed from dist-f9, tzdata was changed due to #437150.
Should we open another bug for efforts to get that in EPEL, so we don't spam
people that were interested in review request into rawhide?

[1] http://netbsd.sk/~lkundrak/openjdk-el5/ (will probably be subject to move to
http://people.redhat.com/lkundrak/openjdk-el5/ but I am over quota and am
waiting for extension approval :)

-- Additional comment from erik-fedora on 2008-03-12 17:20 EST --
Great job!
I'll try out your repo in a couple of days to install a package called Alfresco
which requires Java 1.6 on a CentOS 5 machine. I'll let you know if I notice
anything strange.

-- Additional comment from fitzsim on 2008-03-12 17:25 EST --
Would having java-1.6.0-openjdk in EPEL cause conflicts if it were introduced
later in RHEL?

-- Additional comment from lkundrak on 2008-03-12 17:34 EST --
Thomas: Not necessarily. It could be removed from EPEL for that release. To
allow smooth update you would just bump the revision to be bigger that one of
the package in EPEL. We can agree on some revision number and keep the revision
number of the EPEL package smaller than it.

-- Additional comment from fitzsim on 2008-03-12 17:52 EST --
I updated the Java release notes for Fedora 9:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Java


-- Additional comment from erik-fedora on 2008-03-17 11:40 EST --
(In reply to comment #22)
> Erik: Here's my build of openjdk for RHEL-5, with packages that are not in EPEL:
> [1].

I've just tried installing a fresh CentOS 5 system with your repo enabled during
the installation and your packages were automatically pulled in.

However, when installing Tomcat5 I get the following error :
  Updating  : tomcat5                      ####################### [48/74] 
/usr/bin/build-jar-repository: error: Could not find ecj Java extension for this JVM
/usr/bin/build-jar-repository: error: Some specified jars were not found for
this jvm

This failure makes it impossible to run a tomcat based web-application. I've
tried rebuilding eclipse(-ecj) against java-1.6.0-openjdk, but this fails.

-- Additional comment from lkundrak on 2008-03-17 12:16 EST --
(In reply to comment #22)
> Should we open another bug for efforts to get that in EPEL, so we don't spam
> people that were interested in review request into rawhide?(In reply to
comment #27)

(In reply to comment #27)
> However, when installing Tomcat5 I get the following error :
>   Updating  : tomcat5                      ####################### [48/74] 
> /usr/bin/build-jar-repository: error: Could not find ecj Java extension for
this JVM
> /usr/bin/build-jar-repository: error: Some specified jars were not found for
> this jvm

Works for me, on fairly minimal RHEL-5. 

> 
> This failure makes it impossible to run a tomcat based web-application. I've
> tried rebuilding eclipse(-ecj) against java-1.6.0-openjdk, but this fails.



-- Additional comment from walters on 2008-03-18 15:56 EST --
Has anyone looked at building on EL4?