openjdk 17

[asbachb]

Project description
Next LTS release of openjdk / java.

(I think it would be nice to have a new package alias jdk-lts.)

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://openjdk.java.net/
• source URL: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk17u
• license: gpl2 with classpath exception
• platforms: unix, linux, darwin

[asbachb]

I've some work in progress of packaging jtreg in order to test the jdk build: https://github.com/asbachb/nixpkgs/tree/jtreg

[tadfisher]

Aliases aren't great, as updating nixpkgs would mean (in this case) going from JDK 11 to JDK 17, which is likely to break something. We already have openjdk${version} attrs which can be used to "pin" to a specific JDK release.

[asbachb]

We already had some discussion about that: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/retirement-of-old-openjdk-releases/9929

I still think that the best approach would be that the default jdk should point to the lts release or have a dedicated alias for that.

[Uthar]

To start off, this builds and works fine Uthar@f9bd12e, some notes:

• Can't run tests because jtreg isn't packaged (https://github.com/asbachb/nixpkgs/tree/jtreg
• Can't build docs because it fails with error: unknown tag: textarea
• Haven't built the case with no adoptopenjdk as bootstrap, but the derivation itself compiles just fine with the if removed.
• Worked around bizarre error in LegalNoticeFilePlugin by patching out the failing check

[asbachb]

Just fyi: I did not package jtrg yet as I'm currently unable to validate any jdk build due to any errors. I think in this state it won't provide any benefit.

[Uthar]

Hmm... I'm not sure if older jdks in nixpkgs run tests either. E.g. this openjdk16 build looks like it builds the tests but doesn't run them - there's no "X tests passed" or anything like that in the logs.

Same for javadoc - older jdks dont include them as well - they build them but don't copy to $out

[asbachb]

Normally other distros package javadoc separately. Yeah currently there are no tests. That was the reason I tried to package jtreg.

[Uthar]

Also, thedocs target fails only during building javadoc for JavaFX, I tried also with JavaFX 17.0.0.1, but no change. Weird. (Works with enableJavaFx = false)

Also, to build JavaFX 17 i had to set COMPILE_WEBKIT=false in gradle, if someone ever has this problem

I guess this isnt so important now and just building the images target is good enough, so I started the PR

[tadfisher]

This can be closed, correct?

[KamilaBorowska]

Closed by #140257.