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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 01:33:13PM +0200, Mario Torre wrote:
> > 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?

> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2017-May/019301.html
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2017-May/026984.html

> > 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.

Those patches aren't invasive. One fixes a filename, one adds a
missing #include and the third one adds a missing variable. All within
the linux_sparc folder.

> 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.

I am one of the maintainers of the Debian/sparc64 port and we have the
possibility to add distro-specific patches. However, I don't want to
carry these patches around forever but rather get them merged upstream
and make them available to all downstreams, not just Debian.

Adrian

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