[gentoo-soc] Re: Week 4 Report for Big Data Infrastructure and H2O ebuilds Project

["Yuan Liao (Leo)" <liaoyuan@gmail.com>]

Hi folks,

Second update: the user documentation of the Kotlin packages is now
complete.  It is available as a subpage under my user page on Gentoo
Wiki:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Leo3418/Kotlin

Thanks,
Leo

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 6:30 PM Yuan Liao (Leo) <liaoyuan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> The blog post discussing how I created the Kotlin library ebuilds has
> been published at:
> https://leo3418.github.io/2021/07/05/gentoo-build-kt-src.html
>
> Thanks,
> Leo
>
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 10:03 PM Yuan Liao (Leo) <liaoyuan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I have been quite busy creating the ebuilds that build the Kotlin
> > libraries from source during the past week, and I am pleased to report
> > that the work is now complete and the ebuilds are installable and
> > usable.  Every Kotlin library listed here [1] can be built from source
> > using those ebuilds.  All ebuilds have been pushed to my fork of the
> > Spark overlay [2].
> >
> > To use the ebuilds to build the Kotlin libraries from source, binary
> > JARs for kotlin-stdlib and kotlin-reflect pre-built by the upstream
> > must be installed first for bootstrapping.  Then, after the Kotlin
> > compiler package -- dev-lang/kotlin-bin -- is installed, the libraries
> > can be built from source.  The exact commands to build and install the
> > libraries from source are:
> >
> >     env USE="binary" emerge -a1 dev-java/kotlin-stdlib dev-java/kotlin-reflect
> >     emerge --ask dev-lang/kotlin-bin
> >     emerge --ask --update --newuse --deep @world
> >
> > The ebuilds only use kotlinc and javac to build the Kotlin libraries.
> > Although Gradle is used by the upstream to build Kotlin, it is not
> > used in those ebuilds.  I extracted the commands Gradle would run to
> > build each library component to create those ebuilds.
> >
> > I am currently in the process of writing a blog post describing how I
> > discovered the way to extract those commands from Gradle and
> > surmounted various challenges in creating those ebuilds, and I have
> > also planned to provide more documentation regarding installing and
> > maintaining those packages.  The blog post is supposed to be completed
> > today, but I really cannot make it because there are really lots of
> > things to talk about and my brain is slowing down as bedtime is coming
> > closer and closer.  I am sorry for the delay.  Once it is published
> > (hopefully tomorrow), I will post the link to it in a reply to this
> > email.  The link to the documentation will also be posted after it is
> > done.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Leo
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/v1.5.20/libraries
> > [2]: https://github.com/Leo3418/spark-overlay/tree/master/dev-java#:~:text=kotlin-annotations-jvm