Hi Erik, Thanks for the response. I created:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8207849 (infrastructure/build is the right component for this, right?) and I’ll post a webrev soon. Tony ————— Tony Printezis | @TonyPrintezis | tprinte...@twitter.com On July 19, 2018 at 9:53:42 AM, Erik Joelsson (erik.joels...@oracle.com) wrote: Since JEP 223 specifies an arbitrary length (something I had missed before), I agree the build should support a few extra version numbers. /Erik On 2018-07-18 13:22, Tony Printezis wrote: > 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 | tprinte...@twitter.com
