[oe] State of Java on OE

[Koen Kooi]

Op 22-04-17 om 08:45 schreef Koen Kooi:
> Op 22-04-17 om 00:25 schreef Steven Osborn:
>> Is anyone using Java on OE devices right now?
> 
> Me!
> 
>> meta-java - no release branches.  Seems to only be focused on master. 
>> I've had trouble even finding a revision that will compile on Morty.
> 
> koen at beast:/build/v2016.12$ cat .repo/manifests/default.xml  | grep java 
> <project name="meta-java" path="layers/meta-java" remote="yocto" 
> revision="a265b31ec7d022be254abdf959360a7624208585" upstream="master"/>
> 
> That generates an openjdk-8 good enough to run jenkins on x86-64, no
> idea about other archs.

I forgot to mention a annoying and stupid bug: if host and target match it
will use host g++ to compile, which breaks in my case because that's gcc 4.9
which doesn't understand the dse flags the recipe is passing in.


regards,

Koen