Moving forward on jdk9

[Greg Lewis]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 11:36:34PM -0700, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 03:03:50PM -0400, Kurt Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 14:29 -0700, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > At the moment our repository is stuck around build 120, with the
> > > initial
> > > JDK release being from build 181.  We got stuck there due to some
> > > merge
> > > conflicts, and I'm not sure it is very useful to try and work around
> > > them
> > > given the changes there has been in the tree since then.
> > > 
> > > I'd like to propose the following:
> > > 
> > > 1. Move the current state of the repo onto a branch to propose the
> > > early port that was done.  All of that work will continue to be
> > > available.
> > > 
> > > 2. Merge with and reset the tip of the repo to match the JDK 9
> > > release build.
> > > 
> > > 3. Merge back changes from the branch and incorporate additional
> > > changes as necessary to get a working JDK9 on *BSD.
> > > 
> > > Comments?
> > > 
> > 
> > No comments. Sounds good. Thanks Greg.
> > 
> > -Kurt
> 
> Thanks.  I'll try and get this done this week.

This is complete, although the last couple of merge pushes have been
rejected as too large by the mailing list.

I've erred on the side of getting the repo exactly in sync with the
upstream.  We should be able to merge in changes that are relevant
from the initial-bsd-port branch as we work towards getting the port
working again.

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