From 87d471aaff94e416401dba39de4f3debaad1314e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Horst=20G=C3=BCnther=20Burkhardt?= Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 00:20:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Horst Günther Burkhardt --- README.md | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fc769ca..77d7835 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ # OpenJDK-patches -These are patches to make OpenJDK run on musl-based systems, and generally just "not glibc amd64". - -Some of these patches will break conformance with glibc on specific architectures, due to the stripping of LFS64 macros. \ No newline at end of file +These are patches to make OpenJDK run on musl-based systems, removing the assumption that OpenJDK will +be being compiled against amd64 and glibc. + +These patches are aimed at making OpenJDK packages for [Adélie Linux](https://www.adelielinux.org/) so that +we can partake in the traditional Linux "killer app" - Minecraft. Also, to support scientific computing +using Java for performance and portability reasons. + +As such, these patches may break compilation against glibc - particularly glibc on powerpc and x86 architectures +(the non-64-bit variants); this is why they're patches and not pull-requests. \ No newline at end of file