Problems with JDK8 build on Ubuntu?

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 11/23/2017 01:15 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 23/11/17 12:10, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> I have upstreamed many Debian-related fixes to OpenJDK but they are so far
>> only part of OpenJDK-10. I haven't done any backports to OpenJDK yet, but
>> I might start doing this with OpenJDK-9 in the near future.
> 
> Are these specifically Debian-related, or also things that we might
> carry in RPMs too?  I've been wondering if it might be interesting to
> see if we're carrying local fixes for the same problems.

I would say most of them are not Debian-specific. However, many of the
patches are just present in Debian because of the multitude of architectures
that exist in Debian.

The current list of patches used in the openjdk-9 package can be found in [1].

Adrian

> [1] https://sources.debian.net/src/openjdk-9/9%7Eb181-2/debian/patches/

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