[RFR]: Add alpha detection to platform.m4

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 3:07 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On 08/16/2017 06:43 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>
>> What are you proposing for Alpha and all these other platforms?
>>
>
> They work fine with the Zero port and we have been using Zero on
> these Debian for several years now. For most architectures, just
> adding the autoconf definitions is enough to get them to build
> OpenJDK Zero.
>
> Some additional minor patches are necessary sometimes. For example,
> on Alpha we need to patch autoconf not to pass "-Dalpha" during
> build but "-D_alpha_" as there is already a variable named
> "alpha" in some of the sources which breaks the build.
>
> For any port supported by the OpenJDK there needs to be an active
>> segment of the community that is prepared to be the "caretakers" of that
>> port.
>>
>
> You're right. But since these platforms use only Zero, this point
> doesn't apply.
>
>
Zero itself is not exactly well maintained, and maybe accepting these
trivial patches causes Debian developers to adopt Zero more. This would be
a good thing.

Just my 5 cent.

..Thomas


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