RE-SPIN: JDK 7 build 42 is available at the openjdk.java.net website

Andrew John Hughes gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org
Sun Dec 21 19:45:03 UTC 2008


2008/12/21 Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>:
> On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 20:58 +0800, Max (Weijun) Wang wrote:
>> I'm not a release engineer, but AFAIK, there are 3 kinds of builds
>> here we can do at Sun:
>>
>> 1. Using only the opened repos:
>>     Sorry, they do not build.
>>
>> 2. Using the opened repos plus the binary plugs:
>>     Build OK, and -version shows openjdk...
>>
>> 3. Using the opened repos plus the closed repos:
>>     Build OK, also emits the binary plugs, and -version shows JDK...
>> This is probably the version you find on http://download.java.net/jdk7/binaries/
>> .
>>
>> The two builds are probably using different environment variables also.
>
> Thanks Max.
>
> 1) is what we do with IcedTea, although we don't publish any binaries,
> but the various distros do.

No, the distro publish OpenJDK6 binaries not 7.

> 2) Where can I find these?
> 3) Why are these not published under the same terms as the rest of
> OpenJDK is?
> Are these closed repos something different from the binary plugs in 2)?
>
>> > It seems the source bundle also changed its name.
>>
>> You mean the 19_dec date? I think this is because the whole build
>> process generates source bundle, executable, and binary plug, and
>> Xiomara's script automatically republishes all of them into multiple
>> pages.
>
> Aha, yeah, that is probably it. I didn't have the old sources around, so
> I couldn't compare. But since icedtea[7] is based on these source
> releases the build broken when the source archive name changed.
>

The zip changed.  It's probably just internal date data, but the
checksum changed as well as the filename and cmp shows the two to be
different.

> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>



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