[oe] [meta-java] openjre-8: java from master/master-next crashes on startup

[Richard Leitner]

Hi Jacob,

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 09:01:01AM +0100, Jacob Kroon wrote:
> On 1/21/20 8:12 AM, Richard Leitner wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 08:00:48AM +0100, Jacob Kroon wrote:
> > > Hi Richard,
> > > 
> > > I still can't use openjre-8 in either warrior, zeus or master builds, due to
> > > the crash below. I wonder, is anyone successfully using openjre-8 in either
> > > of these releases ?
> > 
> > I'm doing tests for the machine/distro combinations stated in the README
> > before pushing to master. Therefore it should have worked back then.
> > 
> > Nonetheless I'm currently working on updating openjdk-8 to the latest ga
> > and implementing continous (e.g. nightly/weekly) builds/tests on qemu to
> > make sure nothing broke over time.
> > 
> > So maybe I could get something out of this.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for doing this work.

I've just pushed a temporary branch named "g0hl1n/wip-jdk8u242ga" to
the meta-java repository [1]. It contains (as you might have guessed)
the update to openjdk 8u242ga.

Can you please give it a try if it works for you?

Please note that I might force-push to the branch.

regards;rl

[1] https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-java/log/?h=g0hl1n/wip-jdk8u242ga