IcedTea6 1.6 Released!

[Andreas Radke]

Am Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:00:07 +0100
schrieb Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>:

> We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea6 6.
> 
> The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from
> OpenJDK7 using Free Software build tools. It also includes the only
> Free Java plugin and Web Start implementation, and support for
> additional architectures over and above x86, x86_64 and SPARC via the
> Zero assembler port.
> 
> 
> What's New?
> -----------------
> - Added java method tracing using systemtap version 0.9.9+.
> - Security fixes for:
>   CVE-2009-2670 - OpenJDK Untrusted applet System properties access
>   CVE-2009-2671 CVE-2009-2672 - OpenJDK Proxy mechanism information
> leaks CVE-2009-2673 - OpenJDK proxy mechanism allows non-authorized
> socket connections CVE-2009-2674 - Java Web Start Buffer JPEG
> processing integer overflow CVE-2009-2675 - Java Web Start Buffer
> unpack200 processing integer overflow CVE-2009-2625 - OpenJDK XML
> parsing Denial-Of-Service CVE-2009-2475 - OpenJDK information leaks
> in mutable variables CVE-2009-2476 - OpenJDK OpenType checks can be
> bypassed CVE-2009-2689 - OpenJDK JDK13Services grants unnecessary
> privileges CVE-2009-2690 - OpenJDK private variable information
> disclosure
> - FAST interpreter for ARM
> - Timezone fix:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=377
> - Stackoverflow error fix:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=381
> - Backport regression (NPE) fix for AccessControlContext fix
> - Bump to hs14b16
> - The plugin has been updated to improve stability and cookie support.
>   Support for certificates with mismatched CNs has been added as well.
> -----------------
> 
> The tarball and nosrc RPM can be downloaded here:
> 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/fedora/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-28.b16.fc11.nosrc.rpm
> 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.6.tar.gz
> 
> 
> The following people helped with this release:
> Gary Benson, Deepak Bhole, Andrew Haley, Andrew John Hughes, Mark
> Wielaard, Lillian Angel, Matthias Klose, Ed Nevill, and many others.
> 
> 
> We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!
> 
> To get started:
> $ hg clone http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.6
> $ cd icedtea6-1.6
> 
> Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL:
> $ ./configure [--enable-visualvm --with-openjdk --enable-pulse-java
> --enable-systemtap ...]
> $ make
> 

We build our packages with latest openjdk/icedtea. It seems something
has changed from 1.5.2 to 1.6:

checking for an OpenJDK source zip... /tmp/openjdk6/trunk/src/openjdk-6-src-b16-24_apr_2009.tar.gz
checking for a HotSpot source zip... 09f7962b8b44.tar.gz
checking for an OpenJDK source directory... /tmp/openjdk6/trunk/src/icedtea6-1.6/openjdk
checking for an alternate jar command... not specified
checking whether to use CACAO as VM... no
checking for CACAO home directory... $(abs_top_builddir)/cacao/install
checking for a CACAO source zip... not specified
checking whether to disable optimizations... checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking whether to use the zero-assembler port... no
checking whether to use the Shark JIT... no
checking whether to retrieve the source code from Mercurial... no
checking which Mercurial revision to use... tip
checking cups/cups.h usability... yes
checking cups/cups.h presence... yes
checking for cups/cups.h... yes
checking cups/ppd.h usability... yes
checking cups/ppd.h presence... yes
checking for cups/ppd.h... yes
checking X11/X.h usability... yes
checking X11/X.h presence... yes
checking for X11/X.h... yes
checking for main in -ljpeg... yes
checking for main in -lgif... yes
checking for main in -lz... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for XPROTO... yes
checking for XT... yes
checking for XP... yes
checking for X11... yes
checking for XINERAMA... yes
checking for XRENDER... yes
checking for LIBPNG... yes
checking for XTST... yes
checking for FREETYPE2... yes
checking for ALSA... yes
checking for XULRUNNER... yes
checking for GTK... yes
checking for GLIB... yes
checking for xulrunner version... 1090102
checking for --with-additional-vms... 
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating platform_zero
config.status: creating jvm.cfg
config.status: creating ergo.c
config.status: executing depfiles commands
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-openjdk-home
mkdir -p bootstrap
rm -f bootstrap/jdk1.6.0
ln -sf yes bootstrap/jdk1.6.0; \
	if ! bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/bin/java -version ; \
         then \
           echo "bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/bin/java" \
               "cannot be found or is corrupted." ; \
           exit 1; \
        fi
/bin/sh: Zeile 1: bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/bin/java: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/bin/java cannot be found or is corrupted.
make: *** [stamps/bootstrap-directory-symlink.stamp] Fehler 1
==> FEHLER: Build fehlgeschlagen.



Was has been changed here?

-Andy
Arch Linux package maintainer