Amazon Corretto Slackbuild

In case anyone needs it:
https://github.com/bifferos/slackbui...mazon-corretto

Thanks for sharing this!

Yes indeed - thanks for sharing! I had no idea this even existed; it is reassuring to know that what I have installed on my computer is a Java compiler of the kind of production quality suitable for everday business at a multi-billion dollar business such as Amazon, and offering it for free on their website is a good way of ensuring future business, at least in a small way.

Is it safe to say this is a replacement for openjdk jdk etc..???

Originally Posted by PROBLEMCHYLD Is it safe to say this is a replacement for openjdk jdk etc..???

This *is* a version of OpenJDK, with Amazon's security fixes.

I'm using it with a substantial Java project. Yes, there were bugs moving from Oracle but most fixed. No significant performance issues, in short nothing too dramatic. If you developed from scratch with Corretto (or OpenJDK) you'd probably never notice. It seems the days when OpenJDK was significantly inferior to Oracle are long-gone.

The main reason to switch away from Oracle now concerns licensing:
https://www.itassetmanagement.net/20...censing-model/

Probably a non-issue for small home projects but for any commercial use it's another story.

thanks biff. Think I will replace jdk with this. I like Amazon, never had any problems with them.

This is now a slack-build:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...azon-corretto/

However it now gives an issue because installing Kodi with slpkg says it wants the jdk, whereas the compile seems to run fine with Corretto. So the next question (maybe needs another thread) is how do we elegantly overcome this problem of allowing optional dependencies one of which must be present (without manually compiling the Kodi slackbuild of course, which is how I got around this).

thanks!

Originally Posted by bifferos This is now a slack-build: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...azon-corretto/ However it now gives an issue because installing Kodi with slpkg says it wants the jdk, whereas the compile seems to run fine with Corretto. So the next question (maybe needs another thread) is how do we elegantly overcome this problem of allowing optional dependencies one of which must be present (without manually compiling the Kodi slackbuild of course, which is how I got around this). thanks!

SBo does not have anything in place to list two different programs that resolve the same requirement. The maintainer just has to pick one (and can document any alternatives in the README). To manage this, it would be something your specific SBo building program would need to tackle. I know slackrepo is able to delete and add requirements, so I can tell slackrepo to remove the jdk requirement and add corretto or open-jdk as a requirement for the build process. Whether slpkg supports this type of thing, you'd have to check the documentation or with the developer. sbopkg can do it by editing the REQUIRES line in the .info for the program you're building through the interface.

Looks like I may have to review my use of slpkg as I can't get it to work with -current.

It seems the JDK issues will be difficult to solve as I tried the LibreOffice build last night and it won't work against Corretto. Unfortunately I have my own reasons for wanting the Corretto install to behave exactly like the Oracle JDK, so I used the same filenames in /etc/profile.d/ e.g. 'jdk.sh', which in hindsight was a mistake.

I only yesterday noticed the LibreOffice slackbuild script has this in it:

JAVA=${JAVA:-openjdk7}
if [ "$JAVA" = "openjdk7" ]; then
  . /etc/profile.d/openjdk7.sh
  use_java="--with-java=java"
elif [ "$JAVA" = "openjdk8" ]; then
  . /etc/profile.d/openjdk8.sh
  use_java="--with-java=java"
elif [ "$JAVA" = "jdk" ]; then
  . /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh
  use_java="--with-java=java"
elif [ "$JAVA" = "no" ]; then
  use_java="--with-java=no"
fi

Corretto should have it's own profile script.