Someone is doing a linux-sparc port! (Paul Hohensee)

[Wim Verreycken]

Hi Paul, everyone,

 

Could you be as kind as to update me on the status of this? In the meantime,
did anything change to the policy not to push the linux-sparc port to the
icedtea repo?

 

Thank you,

 

Wim

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wim V 
Sent: woensdag 5 maart 2008 14:03
To: Paul.Hohensee at Sun.COM
Subject: RE: Someone is doing a linux-sparc port! (Paul Hohensee)

 

Paul,

 

If I understand correctly :
1) the linux-sparc port (32 or 64 bit) will not be included in icedtea
2) the linux-sparc 32 port is already in openjdk7, source and make files for
target linux_sparc.ad have to be copied from this source to build icedtea7
on sparc32

3) for the build to also complete on sparc64, I have to wait for the
hotspot-rt port someone is still writing for sparc 64-bit?

Can you confirm this, as it still a little vague here?

Wim

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul.Hohensee at Sun.COM [mailto:Paul.Hohensee at Sun.COM] 
Sent: dinsdag 4 maart 2008 19:28
To: wim at pizzastop.be
Cc: distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: Someone is doing a linux-sparc port! (Paul Hohensee)

 

We won't be pushing the linux-sparc port to the icedtea repository.  We're
building it in from the openjdk jdk7 repository.  The makefiles in the
latter
are already set up for linux-sparc builds, though that was as of a few
months
ago, so might need tweaking.  So all that's needed are the hotspot
linux-sparc files.

The hotspot port will show up first in the hotspot runtime jdk7 repository

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot-rt/

then after some testing (to make sure we haven't broken other platforms)
will be pushed up to the jdk7 hotspot integration repository

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot/

and eventually after even more testing to the jdk7 master repository

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7

You should be able to pull it over to the icedtea repository as soon as it
shows up in hotspot-rt.

Paul

Wim V wrote: 

I assume it is this linux-sparc hotspot port that I'm building.
(I used hg clone http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea
and make builds everything in a directory named "hotspot")
 
>From the Makefiles it seems the only thing missing
to complete my build on sparc64 is a directory named "linux-sparc" under
"os_cpu" with about a douzen of c- and header files. 
 
If you have built icedtea with success on
sparc32, that directory must have been there with the files (at least for a
sparc 32 bit cpu) and a target for linux_sparc.ad(!), which is missing in
the current source for icedtea7.
Otherwise not possible, you will need it for your 32-bit build as well.
 
So where can I find these missing files pls?
And which version of icedtea did you built with success on 32-bit sparc?
 
wim
 
P.S. I had some library issues but I fixed those updating to 
hardy and using some packages from debian lenny testing.
 
  

Sun has a prototype linux-sparc hotspot port that we've
been waiting for the openjdk repositories to open up to
post.  Last time I tried to build it, 32-bit worked fine, but
64-bit died with some sort of build machine library
incompatibility.  Anyway, it'll be posted soon, but it's
quite definitely unsupported by Sun, etc.  If there's enough
interest (read, money), Sun might consider supporting it
at some future time. 
 
I'll post a note as soon as we push it.
 
Paul
    

 
 
  

 

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