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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09


From: Roel Janssen
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:24:54 +0100
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Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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!
>
> That’s great!  With the latest version of the “ant-build-system” (patch
> will be sent out today) you can just do
>
>     (arguments
>       `(#:jdk ,icedtea-8
>         #:ant ,some-other-ant))
>
> to specify a different package for Ant or the JDK.  You would not need
> to override the value of “icedtea” (which is set to “icedtea-7” for now
> as this is the latest supported release).

That looks brilliant to me.  Looking forward to the patch.
Thanks for your work!

Kind regards,
Roel



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