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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ developing, testing, and running programs written in Java.
This script builds the package from source using the packages listed
in the .info file (the source tarball plus a binary of the prevous
version to bootstrap from), so it is not necessary to have a jdk
-package installed to build this package.
+package installed to build this package. (See BIG FAT NOTE below.)
By default, the source package uses all available cores to build the
package, but this can be controlled by passing CORES=<x> to the script.
@@ -22,11 +22,16 @@ removed before running this script.
To test the build, pass TESTS=yes. This will unpack the jtreg package
to run the tests. You should expect to see somewhere in the area of
-about 30 to 40 failures and about a dozen errors. The reports will be
-saved in $TMP/jtreg-reports if you want to review them.
+about 40 failures and about a dozen errors. The reports will be saved
+in $TMP/jtreg-reports if you want to review them.
After installing this package you will need to logout/login to your
machine as it will add new files to the /etc/profile.d folder.
-MANY thanks to the BLFS community for maintaining 32-bit builds of the
-later versions of OpenJDK we use for bootstrapping.
+NOTE: This needs almost 4 GB of storage to build, so if space on your
+/tmp is limited, you may want to adjust $TMP to another partition.
+
+BIG FAT NOTE: If you have ANY JDK installed (jdk, zulu-openjdk,
+OpenJDK, etc.), you MUST first uninstall it, then logout/login to
+clear the JAVA_HOME folder from your $PATH in order to build this
+package, otherwise the build will fail.