Hey Timo,

I applied the patch but then it can't find linux/types.h (musl does not
provide it) while compiling
jdk8/jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/nio/ch/sctp/Sctp.h

Did you encounter the same problem?

Frieder



2015-11-11 12:16 GMT+01:00 Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:11:50 +0100
> Frieder Berthold <berthold.frieder@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > I want to build a rather small Java Runtime Environment with OpenJDK8
> > and the small JamVM and use musl for this purpose. Unfortunately
> > OpenJDK needs the header sys/sysctl.h which musl does not provide
> > anymore ( I found older musl version which include this header).
> > Is there a reason for that?
> >
> > Maybe someone already tried to build OpenJDK8 with musl and could
> > give me some further hints?
>
> We build openjdk8 for alpine linux using musl.
>
> The build scripts are at:
> http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/community/openjdk8
>
> It uses openjdk7 (built via icedtea) to bootstrap.
>
> The patch fix your specific issue is:
>
> http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/community/openjdk8/icedtea-jdk-musl.patch
>
> and as you see, sysctl.h is not really needed and can be just removed.
>
> /Timo
>