Compiling Hotspot on Ubuntu 11.10

[David Holmes]

On 17/04/2012 2:30 AM, Developer Ubuntu wrote:
> ..../hotspot/make/linux/MakeFile has following
> line (233)
> SUPPORTED_OS_VERSION = 2.4% 2.5% 2.6% 2.7%
>
> line (239)
>  >&2 echo "*** This OS is not supported:" `uname -a`; exit 1;
>
> I got error compiling hotspot pn Ubuntu 11.10 having kernel version 3.0.x
>
> Changing it to
> SUPPORTED_OS_VERSION = 2.4% 2.5% 2.6% 2.7% 3.0%
> has worked.

You must have old sources, the current Makefile already has:

SUPPORTED_OS_VERSION = 2.4% 2.5% 2.6% 3%

David
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> Will it have any sideeffects?
>
> Thanks,
> pubuntup