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Hi Leo, |
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"Yuan Liao (Leo)" <liaoyuan@×××××.com> writes: |
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> I have been quite busy creating the ebuilds that build the Kotlin |
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> libraries from source during the past week, and I am pleased to report |
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> that the work is now complete and the ebuilds are installable and |
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> usable. Every Kotlin library listed here [1] can be built from source |
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> using those ebuilds. All ebuilds have been pushed to my fork of the |
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> Spark overlay [2]. |
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> To use the ebuilds to build the Kotlin libraries from source, binary |
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> JARs for kotlin-stdlib and kotlin-reflect pre-built by the upstream |
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> must be installed first for bootstrapping. Then, after the Kotlin |
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> compiler package -- dev-lang/kotlin-bin -- is installed, the libraries |
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> can be built from source. The exact commands to build and install the |
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> libraries from source are: |
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> env USE="binary" emerge -a1 dev-java/kotlin-stdlib dev-java/kotlin-reflect |
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> emerge --ask dev-lang/kotlin-bin |
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> emerge --ask --update --newuse --deep @world |
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> The ebuilds only use kotlinc and javac to build the Kotlin libraries. |
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> Although Gradle is used by the upstream to build Kotlin, it is not |
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> used in those ebuilds. I extracted the commands Gradle would run to |
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> build each library component to create those ebuilds. |
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> I am currently in the process of writing a blog post describing how I |
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> discovered the way to extract those commands from Gradle and |
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> surmounted various challenges in creating those ebuilds, and I have |
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> also planned to provide more documentation regarding installing and |
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> maintaining those packages. The blog post is supposed to be completed |
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> today, but I really cannot make it because there are really lots of |
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> things to talk about and my brain is slowing down as bedtime is coming |
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> closer and closer. I am sorry for the delay. Once it is published |
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> (hopefully tomorrow), I will post the link to it in a reply to this |
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> email. The link to the documentation will also be posted after it is |
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> done. |
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Congratulation for such a major triumph as a by-product of your GSoC |
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project! The idea for Gentoo to be the first GNU/Linux distribution |
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supporting kotlin toolchain from source code is the sexiest. |
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@fordfrog, IMHO this achievement deserves wider exposure. I would like |
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to encourage Leo to call for early testers of Gentoo Kotlin ebuilds on |
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-dev and start the procedure to land |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Leo3418/Kotlin somewhere aligned with |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Java. How do you think? |
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Cheers, |
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