Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks a lot for this patch.  I succesfully upgraded the icedtea-7 to
> icedtea-8 package by modifying: (define-public icedtea icedtea-8).
>
> Then I succesfully compiled Picard with ant and icedtea-8 from Guix.
> So..  it works!

That’s great!  With the latest version of the “ant-build-system” (patch
will be sent out today) you can just do

    (arguments
      `(#:jdk ,icedtea-8
        #:ant ,some-other-ant))

to specify a different package for Ant or the JDK.  You would not need
to override the value of “icedtea” (which is set to “icedtea-7” for now
as this is the latest supported release).

~~ Ricardo