On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 16:03:18 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Current cross-compilation configurations require adding the whole lot of 
>> configure options to make it find the dependencies: freetype and X11 libs 
>> are the only problematic dependencies. We should be able to specify just the 
>> `--with-sysroot`, and get everything else autodetected.
>> 
>> After this patch, doing `sh ./configure 
>> --openjdk-target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu --with-sysroot=/chroots/ppc64el`, 
>> where chroot is `debootstrap`-ed chroot as per our build docs, is enough to 
>> get everything configured. See the GH Actions definition to see what options 
>> are not needed anymore.
>> 
>> Some explanations:
>>   - `*-gnuabi64` is needed for `mips64el`
>>   - `*-gnueabihf` is needed for `armhf`
>>   - `$OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU_AUTOCONF-linux-gnu` is needed for `powerpc*`, 
>> because OpenJDK build rewrites `VAR_CPU` to `ppc`, leading to mismatch. 
>> 
>> Additional testing:
>>  - [x] Configure with target `x86_64-linux-gnu`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `i686-linux-gnu`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `alpha-linux-gnu`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `aarch64-linux-gnu`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `arm-linux-gnueabihf`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `arm-linux-gnueabi`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `mipsel-linux-gnu`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `mips64el-linux-gnuabi64`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `powerpc-linux-gnu`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `powerpc64-linux-gnu`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `powerpc64le-linux-gnu`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `m68k-linux-gnu`
>>  - [x] Configure with cross-target `sh4-linux-gnu`
>
> Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Replace with linux with TARGET_OS

Looks good now and definitely a nice change to find these libs automatically.

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Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2833

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