Bug#909905: gradle FTBFS when building with openjdk-11 (needs update to 4.7.0 or upstream patch)

[Tiago Daitx]

Updated patch to include the missing DEP-3 headers and to remove the test files.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 9:52 PM Tiago Daitx <tiago.daitx at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> I have updated the patch to include 3 additional commits from
> upstream, this fixes the build with openjdk-11 and stops gradle from
> FTBFS.
>
> The last applied patch [1], which actually gets rid of the
> "NoSuchMethodError: sun.misc.Unsafe.defineClass" error, required me to
> remove the kotlin classes and then put the new classes under
> subprojets/base-services/ instead of subprojects/base-services-java9/
> in order to get them to compile - the logic of handling the
> subprojects has been moved to kotlin and I didn't check if there was a
> way to get it working with separated directories under gradle's 4.4
> build structure.
>
> For now I kept the openjdk-11 version check patch as it was
> originally, having the full JEP-223 might actually be a good thing - I
> will let the decision to someone who understands gradle better than I
> do.
>
> Of course, always bootstrap with openjdk-10 first, after that the
> generated binaries are good enough to get it to build with openjdk-11.
>
> [1] debian/patches/use-lookup-instead-of-reflection-on-java-9-3db6e25698705317.patch
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 8:39 PM Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > Le 01/10/2018 à 19:37, shirish शिरीष a écrit :
> >
> > > So are we going to have gradle 4.8 in either experimental or unstable soonish.
> >
> > Unfortunately no. Starting with version 4.5 Gradle requires Kotlin, and
> > we are nowhere near having Kotlin in Debian. It's more likely we'll
> > instead patch Gradle 4.4 and fix the Java 11 incompatibilities.
> >
> >
> > > I'm sure you may have read the freeze time-table which was shared few days ago.
> > >
> > > It would be nice to have all the components in debian tested etc. well
> > > before freeze.
> >
> > Sure but this won't happen magically, we need more contributors.
> >
> > Emmanuel Bourg
> >
>
>
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> tiago.daitx at canonical.com
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