[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: 8195685: AArch64: AArch64 cannot build with JDK-8174962

[jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com]

> On 23 Jan 2018, at 11:54, Andrew Dinn <adinn at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> On 23/01/18 10:36, David Holmes wrote:
>> Adding in hotspot-dev and Jesper
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> I don't think you want to push this to jdk/hs, else you'll have a worse
>> problem. If this undoes the fix, and the changeset with the fix is
>> already seen to be in jdk/hs then when we sync with jdk/jdk we will end
>> up without the fix!
> 
> Yeah, I thought that was probably going to be the problem.
> 
>> You may be lucky in that Jesper has been holding off pulling jdk/jdk
>> into jdk/hs due to some test failures in jdk/jdk. If those are fixed
>> (and I know one has been) then Jesper may merge jdk/jdk to jdk/hs "real
>> soon now" and all the necessary pieces will be in place in jdk/hs.
> Yes, I guess once the other changes make it in "real soon" the out of
> order, early application of this one will not matter. Thanks for
> explaining things and, once again, apologies for the mess.

The merge is done. I'll just run a sanity test cycle on the result and then pull jdk/jdk into jdk/hs provided there are no errors.
/Jesper


> 
> regards,
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
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