RFR: 8244224: Implementation of JEP 381: Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports (build system)

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello Erik!

On 5/4/20 5:54 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> The build changes look ok and will remove all support for building on or recognizing either Solaris or Sparc.
> 
> Kim's note is valid and I would recommend removing that variable completely.
> 
> I do think it would be possible to leave enough in there to enable zero builds on Linux Sparc,
> but I assume you would need help from someone developing the necessary patch as we don't have
> access to a Linux Sparc build environment to test it out.

Indeed, I already mentioned that in [1].

As for the testing, as you may know, I have access to pretty much any architecture
running Linux, including SPARC, of course.

But anyone on this list get can get free access to a SPARC-T5 running Debian
unstable through the GCC compile farm [2]. I'm one of the administrators of
this T5 (it's actually an LDOM on a T5).

The GCC compile farm has been created for exactly this purpose and we try to
make as many architectures available, so please feel free to apply for an
account and make use of that possibility :).

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2020-May/027344.html
> [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm

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