solaris builds and new infra.....

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Kelly,

> Or do the extra credit and just build a merged 32+64 image by default.

I'm second to it.

-Dmitry

On 2012-11-29 08:01, 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. ;^)
> 
> -kto
> 
>>
>> -Alan.
> 


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Dmitry Samersoff
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