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

[SAPTARSHI MUKHERJEE]

Thanks to all for the suggestions, I'll keep them in mind during all my
future commits.

With Warmest Regards,
Yours Sincerely,
*Saptarshi Mukherjee**.*


On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 8:17 AM Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> 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 and the port has been outdated since 2008.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
>
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