<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Just a heads up on an approaching change to the version of the Solaris compilers we use for jdk7 builds.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Currently the jdk7 repositories expect to be built with the Solaris Studio 12 (SS12) compilers, but</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">soon that will be changing to the Solaris Studio 12 Update 1 (SS12u1) compilers (technically</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">SS12u1 plus some additional compiler patches, which are critical for SS12u1 to work for us).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">The sanity checks are very forgiving and the worst case scenario is a sanity warning message,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">so the brave ones could change their PATH and ALT_COMPILER_PATH settings now.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">However, keep in mind, this change is not official yet.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br><br></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><div>You can download SS12u1 compilers at this URL:</div><div> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/sunstudio/downloads/index.htm">http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/sunstudio/downloads/index.htm</a>l</div><div><br></div><div>Below is the list of patches that were applied to the SS12u1 compilers.</div><div><br></div><div>Solaris-sparc</div><div>===============</div><div><br></div><div>141860-03 Sun Studio 12 Update 1: Patch for Compiler Common patch for Sun C C++ F77 F95</div><div>141861-02 Sun Studio 12 Update 1: Patch for Sun C Compiler</div><div>128228-02 Sun Studio 12 Update 1: Patch for Sun C++ Compiler</div><div>142371-01 Sun Studio 12.1 Update 1: Patch for dbx</div><div>128232-01 Sun Studio 12 Update 1: Patch for Fortran 95 8.4 Dynamic Libraries</div><div>141854-01 Sun Studio 12 Update 1: Patch for Fortran 95 8.4 Support Library</div><div>128231-01 Sun Studio 12 Update 1: Patch for Fortran 95 8.4 Compiler</div><div>142369-01 Sun Studio 12.1: Patch for Performance Analyzer Tools</div><div>124630-31 SunOS 5.10: System Administration Applications, Network, and Core Libraries Patch</div><div>119963-18 SunOS 5.10: Shared library patch for C++</div><div><br></div><div>Solaris-i586</div><div>===============</div><div><br></div><div>141858-03: Sun Studio 12 Update 1_x86: Sun Compiler Common patch for x86 backend</div><div>142363-02: Sun Studio 12 Update 1_x86: Patch for C Compiler</div><div>128229-02: Sun Studio 12 Update 1_x86: Patch for C++ Compiler</div><div>141853-01: Sun Studio 12 Update 1_x86: Patch for Fortran 95 8.4 Dynamic Librarie</div><div>s</div><div>141855-01: Sun Studio 12 Update 1_x86: Patch for Fortran 95 8.4 Support Library</div><div>141852-01: Sun Studio 12 Update 1_x86: Patch for Fortran 95 8.4 Compiler</div><div>142368-01: Sun Studio 12.1_x86: Patch for Performance Analyzer Tools</div><div><br></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">-kto</span></div></body></html>