Hi all, According to the Java version string spec (JEPs 223 and 322) the first part of the version string is a sequence of numbers separated by periods. The sequence can be of arbitrary length. However, in the OpenJDK configure scripts, the sequence length is fixed to exactly four numbers.
For our internal builds we’d like to add at least one additional number to the version string. Is there any interest in a change to the scripts to allow that? I’ve prototyped this in a generic way (can add up to 3 additional numbers, called “extra1”, “extra2”, and “extra3”). These are set by passing --with-version-extra(1|2|3)=… to configure. If they are not set, the version string is of course exactly the same as it was before. I also changed the way the value of --with-version-string=… is parsed to be able to also extract the additional three numbers, if present. Would this be generally helpful? Tony ————— Tony Printezis | @TonyPrintezis | [email protected]
