HotSpot just got Hotter - IcedTea6 support for latest HotSpot

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 02/12/2008, Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>  > This does simplify things because the default is now the OpenJDK7
>  > HotSpot.  This means IcedTea6 and IcedTea7 can use the same HotSpot
>  > patches and hopefully you'll bump Zero up to this version too (I've
>  > already patched it to at least build in 7, but it really needs a
>  > sanity check).  Then we are all on the same page at last.
>
>
> If you can get it so that the new icedtea6 builds with some HotSpot 7
>  then I'll switch over to it for my JCK runs.
>
>
>  Cheers,
>  Gary
>
>  --
>  http://gbenson.net/
>

That's what I've done.

$ /home/andrew/build/icedtea6/bin/java -version
java version "1.6.0_0"
IcedTea6 1.4-r990fb5e4f060 Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_0-b13)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b08, mixed mode)

Zero just needs fixing up.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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