RFC: Minor patch to set JDK_UPDATE_VERSION based on drop

[Deepak Bhole]

* Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> [2009-12-22 15:12]:
> 2009/12/22 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com>:
> > * Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> [2009-12-22 14:37]:
> >> As discussed earlier, based on Mark's suggestion, here is a patch to set
> >> the JDK update version based on the drop version. I tested it with
> >> icedtea6 head and it seems to work correctly.
> >>
> >> ChangeLog:
> >> 2009-12-22  Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com>
> >>
> >>     * Makefile.am: Set JDK_UPDATE_VERSION based on upstream drop version
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Deepak
> >
> > I think this will go better if I actually attach the patch..
> >
> > Deepak
> >
> 
> This patch uses the version of IcedTea rather than the drop number
> which would be OPENJDK_VERSION.  Maybe the latter would be better as
> it's a whole number rather than 1.6, 1.7, etc.?

The OpenJDK version is bXX, which is not the convention that the Sun JRE
follows. The patch uses PACKAGE_VERSION and then uses sed to remove the
".", providing a # that is comparable to Sun's JRE.

Cheers,
Deepak

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