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+OpenJDK 8 is an open source implementation of version 8 of the Java
+Development Kit, Standard Edition.  It includes tools for developing,
+testing, and running programs written in Java.
+
+Before installing this package please consider any other jdk's/jre's
+that you have already installed as they may cause conflicts with the
+PATH, JAVA_HOME and MANPATH variables (this includes the 'openjdk7'
+dependency package -- you may wish to remove it after you're done.)
+
+On 32-bit slackware you will need 'zulu-openjdk7' as dependency instead
+of 'openjdk7'. You can use the former on 64-bit slackware too.
+
+If you already have 'openjdk8' on your system (and are compiling a newer
+version, for example) you won't need any dependencies at all.
+
+After installing the package you will need to logout/login to your
+machine as it will add new files to the /etc/profile.d folder.
+
+This script may take a couple of hours to complete and will require
+about 11 GB of disk space for its temporary directory.  It defaults to
+"/tmp/SBo" and you may redefine it like this:
+
+TMP=/your/temporary/dir ./openjdk8.SlackBuild
+
+The 'cacerts' binary is a TrustStore containing CA certificates which
+are used by Java applications.  It is taken from the CentOS package
+'ca-certificates-2015.2.4-65.0.1.el6_6.noarch.rpm'.
+
+If you get an error like
+
+Internal compiler error: java.lang.NullPointerException at
+org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ReadManager.run(ReadManager.java:166)
+
+simply run the build again.  This happens early so it shouldn't be much
+of a problem.  At least 1 out of 5 runs so far have always succeeded.