[macports/macports-ports] Update of port jamvm to version 2.0.0 (#6673)

[Joshua Root]

On 2020-3-29 12:59 , Christopher Chavez wrote:
> On 3/28/2020 1:58 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
>> On 2020-3-28 17:45 , SAPTARSHI MUKHERJEE wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Trying the build of port jamvm (after modification in an attempt to
>>> update to version 2.0.0) on MacOS Catalina, I'm encountering an error as
>>> "*x86_64-apple-darwin19.3.0 not supported*". The associated PR
>>> is https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/6673 and the main.log
>>> and config.log files are attached below. May kindly see and suggest the
>>> needful.
>>
>> It seems fairly clear that the configure script thinks that this host
>> type is not supported. I see x86_64 was previously excluded from
>> supported_archs and you are adding it in the PR. How did you determine
>> that the new version supports darwin x86_64?
>>
>> - Josh
> 
> 
> As of 2.0.0 the project's README indicates it supports x86_64:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/jamvm/code/ci/master/tree/README
> 
> I haven't looked any further into what might be wrong, though.
> The upstream project appears to be dormant since this release (2014),
> and the port has been outdated since 2008. A few months ago I was
> under the impression that its dependency gnu-classpath was having
> problems (for this port, a solution might be to migrate it to the
> Java portgroup since it should now support using OpenJDK instead).
> So maybe this is a port to consider deleting instead, and there are
> likely better ports to try working on to get the hang of MacPorts.
> 
> Christopher A. Chavez

I see. Well, it wouldn't be hard to update the list of accepted
platforms in the configure script, but there clearly hasn't been any
testing on darwin/x86_64 upstream.

- Josh