OpenJDK build system might need to be adapted for Sun Solaris Sparc/SmartOS

[Mario Torre]

2017-05-31 12:44 GMT+02:00 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de>:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:00:59PM +0200, dalibor topic wrote:
>> It's not very complicated. Please see http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/
>> for general details.
>>
>> When it comes to ports to new platforms, the necessary changes may be (a
>> lot) more invasive than a simple bugfix or two, though, so they should go
>> through their own Projects.
>
> Ok, so I signed the OCA and sent in three patches to address build
> issues on Linux/sparcv9. Those patches were rejected with the argument
> that no one can test the code, even though Oracle themselves
> officially support Oracle Linux on SPARC [1].

Do you have a link to this discussion?

> So, how can I get those fixes in?

As Dalibor said, this kind of patches tend to be very invasive, and as
a first contribution especially the entry barrier is quite high. You
may have better luck in trying to merge them into a separate Project
repository or start with a smaller set of changes.

In the meantime perhaps I would suggest to get in touch with the
distro-pkg-dev people since they may help you, even if this is not
Linux specific.

Cheers,
Mario

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