RFR: JDK-8162354: Unable to build JDK 9 on a Sparc T7-1 with default boot-jdk 8.0

Erik Joelsson erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Tue Aug 2 15:11:06 UTC 2016


Hello,

The default bootjdk for 9 is JDK 8. Unfortunately JDK 8 does not work on 
newer M7 sparc hardware. This has of course been fixed in an update. 
This patch changes the Jib profile configuration to use 8u102 as bootjdk 
on Solaris sparc if the cpu is of the M7 type.

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8162354

Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8162354/webrev.01/

/Erik




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