Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

[Xiomara Jayasena]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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...
>   

This change has been in the pipeline for sometime, so F9 was chosen. 

The builds may move up to F10 during the development lifetime of JDK 7.


-Xiomara