IcedTea6 on ia64

[Andrew Haley]

Gary Benson wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> We've just had the following build failure from a dgilmore on IRC.
>> This from building the IcedTea6 release on ia64.
>>
>> http://ia64.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=51511&name=build.log
>>
>> As it seems to be failing in the second stage of the bootstrap with
>> the just-built zero-based HotSpot, I'm guessing that might be the
>> issue.
> 
> Hmmm, doko had the same failure on Ubuntu a few days ago.  It looks
> like it ran and and compiled a ton of stuff already, so it's actually
> quite promising, but that's me being all glass-half-full ;)
> 
> Since it's in floating point code I'm suspicious it might be the bug
> that http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/file/tip/patches/icedtea-ia64-bugfix.patch
> removes the fix for.  I'll ask on one of the HotSpot lists.

Please let us know what you discover; I'd be interested to know what
the IA-64 gcc bug was.

Andrew.