OpenJDK and VisualVM

[Lillian Angel]

Lillian Angel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Later this week, we anticipating have a release and new spins for 
> Fedora 10 and rawhide. NetBeans was recently updated in rawhide to 
> 6.5, and OpenJDK+VisualVM no longer builds with it.
>
> I have been working diligently trying to get visualvm building with 
> the current state, but to do this the profiler tool needs to be built 
> first. Since the 6.5 changes, the profiler tool downloads pre-built 
> binaries during the process. We do not have all the jars in Fedora, 
> and cannot include the prebuilt jars in our builds/rpms.
>
> For the time being, VisualVM will be removed from the IcedTea6 head 
> and Rawhide. It will still be present in Fedora 10.

I noticed that some prebuilt jars also made their way into F-10. In this 
case, we will have to remove VisualVM from there as well. I am in the 
process of talking to the NetBeans people about getting this resolved.


Lillian

>
>
> Cheers,
> Lillian
>
> 2009-01-20  Lillian Angel  <langel at redhat.com>
>
>        * HACKING: Removed visualvm patch.
>        * INSTALL: Updated to remove visualvm notes.
>        * Makefile.am: Removed building of netbeans and visualvm.
>        * README: Updated to remove visualvm notes.
>        * acinclude.m4: Removed options for netbeans and visualvm.
>        * configure.ac: Likewise.
>        * patches/icedtea-visualvm.patch: Removed.
>        * visualvm.desktop: Removed.
>