Re: Fedora ? Java: The Death of Two SIGs

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On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:15:32PM +0100, Mat Booth wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 12:07, 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)
> >
> > Rich.
> 
> Hi, the functionality provided by javah has been folded into javac in
> recent JDKs.
> 
> These days you can make one call to "javac -h" instead of having to
> call both "javac" and "javah"
> 
> I ported quite a few packages this way when Fedora made the switch to
> Java 11 by default. If you like I can probably take a look libguestfs
> and send you a PR?

Sure thing, thanks.

However before you start you might also want to know that there are
apparently some serious GC-related problems with how those bindings
work:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536762

so it might be more of a saga than just changing a few commands.

Rich.

> 
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