Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 24/11/2008, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> Xiomara.Jayasena at Sun.COM wrote:
>  > On 11/24/08 08:00, Andrew Haley wrote:
>  >> Xiomara Jayasena wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> 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.
>  >>>
>  >>
>  >> We've had to fix a few compatibility bugs in IcedTea.  Do you want us to
>  >> send you the patches?
>  >>
>  >
>  > Yes, please -- send me the patches.
>
>
> OK.
>
>  * icedtea-f2i-overflow.patch fixes some overflows that are undefined
>  behaviour in C++.
>
>  * icedtea-hotspot-citypeflow.patch fixes an incorrect use of an enum.
>
>  * icedtea-lib64.patch fixes directory search paths.
>
>  * icedtea-gcc-4.3.patch fixes some compilation errors.
>
>  * icedtea-no-bcopy.patch removes the definition of the BSD bcopy and bcmp
>  functions.
>
>  The first two are really important because without them g++ generates
>  bad code.
>
>
>  Andrew.
>
>

Note that, according to the ChangeLog, icedtea-no-bcopy.patch and
icedtea-hotspot-citypeflow.patch were contributed by Matthias Klose
(doko) who doesn't have an SCA in place.  The rest are from Red Hat.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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