forward-port IMPORT_BINARY_PLUGS to OpenJDK7

[Andrew John Hughes]

2008/10/23 Daniel Fuchs <Daniel.Fuchs at sun.com>:
> Hi guys,
>
> I could take care of applying the same patch than what I did
> a few months ago for OpenJDK 6.
>
> Namely, if you compile OpenJDK with the binary plugs, the SNMP
> runtime will be compiled and included in rt.jar. If you compile
> without the binary plugs, the SNMP runtime will not be included.
>
> If you try to activate the SNMP agent on an OpenJDK instance that
> doesn't have the SNMP runtime in rt.jar then you will get an
> exception.
>
> This was integrated in OpenJDK 6 b06.
> 6661448: Make the SNMP agent optional when OPENJDK=true
>         and IMPORT_BINARY_PLUGS=false
>
> Would that help?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- daniel
> http://blogs.sun.com/jmxetc
>
>
> Christian Thalinger wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 17:16 -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>>
>>> I filed a jdk7 version of the bug
>>>    http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6672710
>>> Assigned it to me, but I'm not sure when I get it fixed.
>>
>> OK.
>>
>>> I seem to recall that this wasn't the only thing needing fixing
>>> so that the openjdk7 builds would build without access to binary plugs.
>>> (Understanding that the resulting build might be missing certain body
>>> parts). .^)
>>
>> My current problem is SNMP.  I can't get around it without changing the
>> build system massively.  And to be honest, I don't want to do that.
>>
>> - Christian
>>
>
>

It would, thanks.  Does OpenJDK7 include Gervill yet? If not, then
sound won't build without the plugs either.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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