RFR: JDK-8141590: Cannot build Zero with devkit

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 13:40 +0100, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 2016-12-05 12:17, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 11:07 +0100, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> > > 
> > > This patch adds libffi to the linux devkit to enable building of zero.
> > > It also adds optional bundling of the libffi library with the JDK. The
> > > reason for this is that the devkit sysroot is based on a distro that
> > > uses libffi.so.5 while most distros we build or run tests on comes with
> > > libffi.so.6, and those are not compatible. Static linking was
> > > considered, but libffi.a doesn't seem commonly available where we would
> > > need it.
> > > 
> > > I'm also adding Jib profiles and a JPRT configuration which enables
> > > building of zero on Linux x86 and x64 for the "buildinfra" testset in
> > > JPRT. Note that these builds are currently not clean (for OracleJDK
> > > builds at least).
> > Does this mean you are going to add Zero to your tested build configs
> > (via JPRT)? So far my knowledge was Oracle didn't build the Zero port
> > at all. From looking at the bug, it seems this is about to change.
> This change alone will not add Zero to the standard set of tested 
> configs. It will only make it easier for Oracle engineers to verify zero 
> builds on demand. There is a related bug filed for adding zero builds to 
> the standard hotspot pre checkin jobs, but I can't say if that change is 
> going to be made at this point.

Thanks, Erik.

Cheers,
Severin