Subject: Re: [bug#41360] [PATCH v3 1/9] gnu: java-openjfx-build: Add helpful patch.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 17:50:38 +0200

Alexey Abramov <[email-masked]> skribis:

> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/java-openjfx-build-jdk_version.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
> +Subject: [PATCH] openjfx: Determine the version of Java in JDK_HOME
> +
> +Icedtea contains guix in its version, so build.gradle failes to run. Openjfx
> +packaging is not trivial, so you will probably need to try build it with
> +gradlew.
> +
> +---
> + build.gradle | 5 ++---
> + 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

This patch also made me realize that we’re using Gradle here, but
there’s no Gradle package in Guix.  That means we must be using a
pre-built jar somewhere, though I didn’t find it.  Any idea where that
comes from?  Julien, any idea?

(The problem existed before your patches.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.