Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 22/11/2008, Kelly O'Hair <Kelly.Ohair at sun.com> wrote:
> To clarify a little, yes this means gcc4, or whatever the default
>  gcc/g++ on the Fedora 9 system is, if Fedora 9 changes it, we change too.
>
>  I would not read too much into the pick of Fedora 9, we needed to pick one
>  that we could focus on, the important message is that we want to advance
>  a newer Linux system. If a new Fedora releases we might even change to it,
>  we want to be as flexible as possible.
>
>  Our hope is that the OpenJDK developers will use lots of different
>  Linux systems and gcc compiler versions in their day-to-day development
>  work, reporting any issues they run into.
>
>  I know there are lots of things we can do to improve the build situation,
>  this one was considered a major first step.
>
>  -kto
>
>
>  Clemens Eisserer wrote:
>
> > So JDK7 (the SUN builds) will be built with GCC-4.2.1 instead of the
> 3.2.1?
> > Would be a really welcome change ;)
> >
> > Thx, Clemens
> >
> > 2008/10/30 Xiomara Jayasena <Xiomara.Jayasena at sun.com>:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The official Release Engineering builds for JDK 7 will be moving from
> the
> > > following OSs:
> > >
> > > *32 bit builds*
> > > ==========
> > > *From: *RH AS 2.1 to Fedora 9
> > >
> > > *64 bit builds*
> > > ==========
> > > *From: *SUSE 8 to: Fedora 9
> > >
> > > All required Makefile changes are in place, there are still  other items
> > > that are still being investigated for this OS upgrade to happen but
> wanted
> > > to inform of the changes that are on the way.
> > > *When:*  It is expected that this change will happen by build 42.
> > >
> > > Please let me know if there are any questions.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Xiomara
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>


Well F10 is out on Tuesday so choosing F9 seems strange...

But I don't get the point of this mail anyway.  OpenJDK already builds
fine on F9 and F10 for me.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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