solaris builds and new infra.....

[David Katleman]

On 11/28/2012 8:01 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
>> On 28/11/2012 19:45, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible for the new infra, to produce a composite image of both server and
>>> client VMs on Solaris 32-bit
>> --with-jvm-variants=client,server --with-target-bits=32
>>
>>> For extra credits is it possible to build the 64 bit image as well and have it merged
>>> into a composite image of 32-bit variants ?
>> I don't know about that, but the "overlay-images" will create the 64-bit overlay that we are used to. Personally I think we should get rid of the overlay have have separate 32-bit and 64-bit images like the other platforms.
> My tendency is to go this route too.  Or do the extra credit and just build a merged 32+64 image by default.
>
> One of the reasons 32 and 64 builds were separate for Solaris was the fact that we had to build x86 on Solaris 8
> but x64 on Solaris 10, way back in jdk5 and jdk6.  I know it adds to the Solaris build time, but my tendency now
> is to declare that all Solaris builds contain both 32 and 64 binaries, and pay the price in build time.
> Someday, we can abandon the 32bit version completely, on all the platforms, I can dream. ;^)


We still need the 32 bit portion of Solaris, to support running in 32bit 
mode, but the reason to build them separately and do the overlay is gone.

So go for the extra credit!

You'd need support from the install group to redo the packages 
(collasping the SVR4/IPS 32/64 packages down to just SVR4/IPSpackages)

         Dave