Hello Ricardo, Thanks a lot for this patch. I succesfully upgraded the icedtea-7 to icedtea-8 package by modifying: (define-public icedtea icedtea-8).
Then I succesfully compiled Picard with ant and icedtea-8 from Guix. So.. it works! Thanks again for your work on all things Java, Roel Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Guix, > > the latest icedtea-ified JDK has not yet been released, but this doesn’t > mean we can’t package it. > > Attached is a patch to add “icedtea-8” (because it provides the JDK for > Java version 1.8). It uses the upstream tarball for version 3.0.0pre09, > which I had to mirror on my own server because the Guile HTTP client > doesn’t like an invalid header in the response from > http://icedtea.classpath.org. > > The version is declared as “2.99.99-pre09” so that version “3.0.0” (when > it is finally released) will be considered an update. > > ~~ Ricardo
