F21 System Wide Change: Java 8

[Dan Horák]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:24:05 -0400 (EDT)
Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Horák" <dan at danny.cz>
> > Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Make Java 8 (provided by OpenJDK 8 which is java-1.8.0-openjdk)
> > > the default Java runtime. The current default Java runtime (Java
> > > 7, provided by OpenJDK 7, java-1.7.0-openjdk) will be obsoleted
> > > and removed.
> 
> > are we confident OpenJDK 8 works well on all Fedora arches, not
> > only on the primary ones?
> 
> Theoretically, yes. If OpenJDK 7 supports an architecture, OpenJDK 8
> should support it about as well (if not better). We may need tweaks
> and patches to make sure OpenJDK 8 builds correctly everywhere, but
> that's one of the things we can fix in rawhide in the coming weeks.
> 
> If you can get me access to machines, I can try building OpenJDK 8
> there myself.

thanks, I'll reach you internally with the logon details, we had the
problem on 32-bit s390 only which means working in a chroot, so I'll
retry first


		Dan