Providing hsdis binaries

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Chris,

I've applied to join that list but I can't see the messages in the archive
yet either.  If you can mail me the relevant thread off-list I'll take a
look at the legal eagle stuff.

Cheers,
Martijn

On 27 May 2015 at 17:48, Chris Newland <cnewland at chrisnewland.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There's a small fire over at jmh-dev regarding hsdis.
>
> I've never had any problems building it from OpenJDK sources on any
> platform but since JITWatch makes use of it I'd like to provide binaries
> (the ones over on Kenai are 5+ years old and binutils / gas which hsdis
> links are still actively developed.
>
> The easiest instructions for building on Windows
> (http://dropzone.nfshost.com/hsdis.htm) claim there's GPL v2 / v3
> incompatibility with binutils which prevents providing binaries.
>
> Any OpenJDK licensing experts care to comment?
>
> I'll ask over at the sourceware mailing list as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
> @chriswhocodes
>
>