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diff --git a/development/openjdk8/README b/development/openjdk8/README index e11a5a72ad..8258e18166 100644 --- a/development/openjdk8/README +++ b/development/openjdk8/README @@ -1,11 +1,14 @@ -OpenJDK 8 is an open source implementation of version 8 of the -Java Development Kit, Standard Edition. It includes tools for developing, +OpenJDK 8 is an open source implementation of version 8 of the Java +Development Kit, Standard Edition. It includes tools for developing, testing, and running programs written in Java. -Before installing this package please consider any other jdk's/jre's that you -have already installed as they may cause conflicts with the PATH, JAVA_HOME -and MANPATH variables (this includes the 'openjdk' dependency package -- you -may wish to remove it after you're done.) +Before installing this package please consider any other jdk's/jre's +that you have already installed as they may cause conflicts with the +PATH, JAVA_HOME and MANPATH variables (this includes the 'openjdk7' +dependency package -- you may wish to remove it after you're done.) + +If you already have 'openjdk8' on your system (and are compiling a newer +version, for example) you don't need the 'openjdk7' dependency. After installing the package you will need to logout/reboot your machine as it will add new files to the /etc/profile.d folder. @@ -16,7 +19,7 @@ about 11 GB of disk space for its temporary directory. It defaults to TMP=/your/temporary/dir ./openjdk8.SlackBuild -The 'cacerts' binary is a keystore containing CA certificates which +The 'cacerts' binary is a TrustStore containing CA certificates which are used by Java applications. It is taken from the CentOS package 'ca-certificates-2015.2.4-65.0.1.el6_6.noarch.rpm'. @@ -25,8 +28,5 @@ If you get an error like Internal compiler error: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ReadManager.run(ReadManager.java:166) -simply run the build again. This happens early so it shouldn't be that of a -problem. At least 1 out of 5 runs so far have always succeded. - -If you already have 'openjdk8' on your system (and are compiling a newer -version, for example) you don't need the 'openjdk' dependency. +simply run the build again. This happens early so it shouldn't be that +of a problem. At least 1 out of 5 runs so far have always succeded. |