Allow HotSpot to build on Linux 3.0+

Keith McGuigan keith.mcguigan at oracle.com
Thu Jul 28 12:32:34 UTC 2011


This appears to remove support for version 2.7.  Is that intentional?

--
- Keith

On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:57 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:

> Linux 3.0 was released last week:
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/452531/
>
> This webrev:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/pr748/
>
> fixes the check in the HotSpot build to allow Linux 3.0 and on
> through the version check.
>
> This is against hotspot-comp/OpenJDK8 but our testing in IcedTea6
> shows that the same patch applies all the way back to hs14 just
> fine.
>
> Ok to push?
>
> You might also want to consider getting this into OpenJDK7 if
> it's going to remain buildable... :-)
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