Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

[Xiomara Jayasena]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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.
>   

I believe an SCA sign by Matthias will be needed so the patches can be 
integrated.  Let me investigate and get back to doko at ... 


Thanks,
-Xiomara