RFR: Bug Pending: Build fails to compile jchuff.c

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 01/23/2018 05:25 PM, Adam Farley8 wrote:
>> SLE-11:*  doesn't even have OpenJDK-8 and is also going to be out of support
>> next year  anyway.
> 
> Does this mean the gcc version will change? If you have hard information on
> this, I'd appreciate the URL.

I'm not sure what you mean. SLE12-SP3 ships gcc-4.8.x while SLE-15 will
ship gcc-7, see:

> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/SUSE:SLE-15:GA/gcc/gcc.spec?expand=1

Is that what you mean when you say the gcc version is changing?

> If the minimum gcc version for 10 or 11 is above 4.8.5 across all platforms,
> then I agree, but I don't have that information, so I figured I'd ask to
> cover all of the JDK versions, to be safe.

I don't know what the minimum version is at the moment, to be honest. I haven't
tried building OpenJDK-10 or OpenJDK-11 on SLE-12:SP3 yet. I could do that
if that's important.

> Even if the gcc version does change, adding 4.8.5-specific code shouldn't
> break anything.

It most likely doesn't break anything. But it leaves workaround in the code
base which we could potentially forget to clean out later when it is no
longer needed.
  
> What do you think?

My opinion is that the codebase for OpenJDK-11 should be kept clean because
we are working on getting rid of unnecessary cruft. But this decision isn't
up to me, of course. I'm just arguing that I consider the chances that someone
will try OpenJDK-11 on SLE-12:SP3 or even SLE-11:SP4 very low.

Adrian

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