Error in jvm_linux.cpp on Ubuntu 8.04: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'

[Jesse Glick]

Compiling /space/src/jdk7/hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/jvm_linux.cpp
rm -f jvm_linux.o
g++ -DLINUX -D_GNU_SOURCE -DIA32 -DPRODUCT -I. -I../generated/adfiles 
-I<<redacted>> -DHOTSPOT_RELEASE_VERSION="\"12.0-b03\"" 
-DHOTSPOT_BUILD_TARGET="\"product\"" -DHOTSPOT_BUILD_USER="\"jglick\"" 
-DJRE_RELEASE_VERSION="\"1.7.0-internal-jglick_2008_04_29_11_32-b00\"" 
-DHOTSPOT_VM_DISTRO="\"OpenJDK\"" -DCOMPILER2 -DCOMPILER1  -fno-rtti 
-fno-exceptions -D_REENTRANT -fcheck-new -m32 -march=i586 -pipe -O3 
-fno-strict-aliasing -DVM_LITTLE_ENDIAN -Werror -Wpointer-arith 
-Wconversion -Wsign-compare    -c -o jvm_linux.o 
/space/src/jdk7/hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/jvm_linux.cpp
cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors
/space/src/jdk7/hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/jvm_linux.cpp:179: warning: 
deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'
/space/src/jdk7/hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/jvm_linux.cpp:179: warning: 
deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'
[...repeated many times...]
/space/src/jdk7/hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/jvm_linux.cpp:179: warning: 
deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'
make[5]: *** [jvm_linux.o] Error 1


Google shows the problem but no solution:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-February/001113.html


There are other similar errors later. I am attaching a sort of crude 
patch (for the hotspot tree, suitable for MQ) which seems to make things 
compile. Perhaps a newer version of GCC is just stricter?
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