Java portgroup default fallback?

[Blair Zajac]

Out of curiosity, do the built-from-source openjdk ports have the support for the oldest macOS releases? In other words, picking, say, Azul, doesn’t support older OSes as much?

> On Feb 23, 2023, at 4:50 PM, Nils Breunese <nils at breun.nl> wrote:
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> The built-from-source openjdk11 and openjdk17 ports have arm64 support. The openjdk8 port doesn’t though. If you want Java 8 on arm64, you can install openjdk8-zulu (Azul Zulu OpenJDK) or openjdk8-corretto (Amazon Corretto).
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> Nils.
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>> Op 23 feb. 2023, om 22:22 heeft Kirill A. Korinsky via macports-dev <macports-dev at lists.macports.org> het volgende geschreven:
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>> Keep in mind that for M1 you probably need zulu JVM.
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>> -- 
>> wbr, Kirill
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>>> On 23. Feb 2023, at 21:48, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
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>>> Does anyone know why there is no default value for java.fallback? The assumption appears to be that if a port is using this portgroup, it requires Java, since it errors out in pre-fetch if no Java is found. So it seems like having no fallback by default is just causing builds to fail unnecessarily.
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>>> If a default fallback is appropriate, what should it be? My initial impression is that the latest LTS openjdk that works on the current OS would be reasonable.
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>>> - Josh
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