IcedTea7 1.10 Release Status

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/5/29 Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>:
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 19:12 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> I've built most permutations I can think of.  What's left to my mind is:
>>
>> * Check a cacao build works (this is the only one I've not done so far)
>
> This seems to be problematic. I haven't done a build against the latest
> tree yet, but I saw your bug report, that looks like the generic java
> launcher changed, so that some parameters for upper/lower bounds get
> passed wrongly to the garbage collector now. But doko reported he got a
> good build against an earlier changeset, so maybe it is something
> different. The mmap patch is definitely needed, but I am afraid that is
> not enough.
>

I find that hard to believe, given it segfaults for me on two
platforms and also for Xerces.
But of course I'd be more than happy if that is the case!

>> * Fix http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=338 -
>> narrowed this down to being a Debian/Ubuntu bug
>> * Get the ok on the plugin/javaws from Deepak
>>

These are both now ok.  Just cleaning up make distcheck (again...)

>> Once these are ok, I plan to cut a release.  Any objections?
>
> Seems fine. With all the changes that went on this week it would be good
> to get a full make check test results build on one or two
> architectures/distros to compare against. I can do some this weekend.
>

I don't think there were many changes to the actual JDK though (just
build fixes) which is what the jtreg tests check.  I was happy enough
with the last set.

At the moment, I just want to know whether to cut a 'proper' release
or not, given that CACAO is broken (as regards actually running code)
and unlikely to be fixed soon.  Do people still want an IcedTea7
release for J1?

> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>



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