JNA support for s390x

[aborkar-ibm]

This is a request for JNA lib to be made available in maven repo for s390x. #427 The previous issue mentions about environment to build JNA.
Is there a CI infrastructure that we can join?

[matthiasblaesing]

As far as possible I try to decouple building the binaries from the actual architecture. I have a debian chroot environment, that runs the builds in a qemu-static emulation. This way I can rebuild the native parts independently of owning the hardware. The chroot-version covers many of the linux bits. I added an environment for s390x based on debian stable.

The result can be found here:

https://github.com/matthiasblaesing/jna/tree/s390x

#427 was closed because there was no reaction to the test request. If you verify, that the build from the above branch works, I'll merge it to master and JNA will be distributed with next version.

Here is a pre-build version of jna.jar (zipped to keep github happy):

jna.zip

For CI Integration: If you are interested you can just monitor the PR or master and let that trigger builds and test-runs. I suggest to ask on the jna-users list, as there are people reading there, that did it for raspberry bi.

http://groups.google.com/group/jna-users

[imdurgadas]

Thanks. Above provided fix works. Can you merge into master ?
When can we expect the new version to be available on maven repo ?

[matthiasblaesing]

Thank you for checking. I merged the binary to master. You can use the snapshot build above. The release of 4.5.0 is not yet scheduled.

[imdurgadas]

Sure. Thanks for the quick fix.