[PATCH]: linux-sparc build fixes (original) (raw)

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Wed May 31 10:55:51 UTC 2017

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 06:52:14PM +1000, David Holmes wrote:

>That's surprising because depending on where your office is, it may >just be a matter of walking down an aisle and knocking on a colleague's >door to get access to the necessary test setup given the fact that >Oracle is officially shipping and supporting Linux for SPARC [1,2].

That doesn't necessarily translate into the OpenJDK or Oracle JDK supporting the Linux-sparc platform. It was previously supported in JFK 7 and early 8 IIRC but is no longer provided in 8u and is not a platform supported in 9.

It should translate, however :-). If I were to buy an Oracle server, I would expect Oracle software to run on it.

>Well, I'm not so sure. openjdk-9 did build in the past (b88), so I >don't think the code is completely bit-rotten [3].

Sure it built in the past but b88 was some time ago and as I said once you get past the hotspot build problem you may find other problems.

Which can also be fixed by additional patches. I also don't see why this is an argument to fix existing issues. They live inside the linux_sparc subfolder and therefore don't affect the release architectures. So, merging the fixes won't hurt, but it makes the work for downstream Linux distributions easier.

Thanks, Adrian

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