Re: Problem building jdk8

Rich Shepard via slackware <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Oct 2019 05:40:50 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, TN Patriot via slackware wrote:

> If I remember correct, you have to reboot the system any time you change
> the jdk, so that it'll get recognized (or whatever).

I've not needed to reboot in the past, yet ...

> Try doing that first, then uninstalling the current jdk with pkgtool in a
> console, then try to rebuild the jdk8 again. Hopefully that will make it
> take.

uninstalling jdk11 does make sense.

Now that I think of it, building openjdk8 from SBo requires openjdk7 to be
present when building jdk8, but uninstalled before upgrading/installing tha
latter.

Thanks for the suggestion,

Rich

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