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

[Jacob Kroon]

Hi Richard,

On 1/24/20 11:37 AM, Richard Leitner wrote:
> 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?
> 

I tried but I get a linker error during openjre-8_242.bb:do_compile:

Making adlc
...
/tmp/ramdisk/build/hosttools/ld: cannot find -lstdc++
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

This is using MACHINE=qemux86-64.

Gonna try and fix and get the build going.

Cheers,
Jacob