The only piece of software depending on java in my system is libreoffice. Libreoffice requires *two* versions of jdk: - Libreoffice itself depends on jdk 11 - Libreoffice depends on ant, which depends on jdk 8 No other jdk or jre dependencies on my system. So two huge jdk's get installed just for libreoffice. Can't ant also use jdk 11? I was unable to find any definite answer about that question on the internet, and I don't know arch linux and arch packages in detail, but I think their ant depends on either jdk 8 or jdk 11?
In an act of desparation I managed to bump ant-core to 1.10.11 and DEPEND on >=virtual/jdk-11 1. unmask virtual/jdk11, ~amd64 as well as /etc/portage/package.unmask 2. emerge virtual/jdk11, it will be slotted next to virtual/jdk-1.8 (I assume openjdk-11 or openjdk-bin-11 is already installed otherwise I expect it to be installed) 3. do the magic with USE flag gentoo-vm from Bug805008 (gentoo-vm is still masked) 4. have a local ebuild (attached) 5. emerge ant-core 6. run ant -diagnostics I am uncertain whether eselect java-vm in #3 is necessary for the ebuild of 4. I learned the hard way that there is a python-helper depend-java-query that determines JVM based on DEPEND and RDEPEND. This helper seems to work only with virtual packages. I had no success directly using openjdk nor openjdk-bin in DEPEND and REDEPEND. Since I'm absolutely new to writing ebuild I also simply removed all the other architectures since repoman complained about architecture things like sparc stuff (repoman --digest=y -d full from https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_ebuild_repository#Simple_version_bump_of_an_ebuild_in_the_local_repository) I also dropped removal of JDK9+ stuff. Finally there seems to be two TAR balls, one with the source and another layered on top with patches. The latter is also referenced through the version number. Since I didn't bother setting up something on Codeberg/ Github I simply hard coded it to the previous version. I didn't change anything other than that and it worked out. Would be great if somebody could assist getting the ebuild straight and this is all blocked by masked virtual/jdk-11. I couldn't find a bug tracking this. Neither is there a roadmap linked anywhere in the Wiki.
Created attachment 733957 [details] hacky ebuild to build on JDK 11 for amd64
Meanwile dev-java/ant-1.10.14-r2 got stabilized which can be used with any jdk. Closing.
