On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 1:07 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A question about this which is semi-related to your email. > > For some C library packages we have Java bindings, eg: > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/java > > These have been disabled in Fedora for ~2 years, but when they were > around they had these BuildRequires: > > BuildRequires: java-1.8.0-openjdk > BuildRequires: java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel > BuildRequires: jpackage-utils > > I believe the only requirements are javac, javah, javadoc (optional) > and a JVM to run the tests on. > > Is it possible to keep this going, or would that require a lot of > work? I notice that javah no longer seems to exist. > > (Note I know almost nothing about how the modern JDK works) I think you'd probably want to do 1) switch to java-11-openjdk (it's the default on all currently supported Fedora branches) 2) replace jpackage-utils with javapackages-tools (depending on what exactly you need from that package) 3) replace javah usage (removed with Java 11) with "java -h", or similar (for an example how I handled this for another package, look at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/jblas/pull-request/2 ) And since those bindings do not look like they require any third-party Java libraries, you should be fine. Fabio _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
