[BRANCH APPROVAL] /hg/icedtea6: PR398: hotspot hs16 / 6b17 build failure on sparc

[Matthias Klose]

On 31.08.2010 17:00, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 12:56 Sun 29 Aug     , Matthias Klose wrote:
>> On 28.08.2010 00:57, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>> On 28.08.2010 00:47, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>> This fixes PR398. Ok for 1.7, 1.8&  1.9?
>>>
>>> I only can approve for 1.8, approved. you are release manager for 1.9 yourself,
>>> so please make the decision yourself.
>>
>
> My plan with 1.9 (and 1.7 now as well) was to have a requirement of
> having each patch approved by another developer (see
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2010-August/009934.html),
> rather than the previous rather unfair practice of me approving all
> patches and being able to commit what I want.  As with patches to any
> tree, anyone can still veto a patch with good reason.
>
>> now checked in the unmodified patch on the 1.9 branch, and one which only
>> applies for the alternate hotspot build on the 1.8 branch.
>
> Thanks.  Was there a particular reason you didn't do 1.7?

they don't apply with the hotspot included in 1.7.

>> Test results are
>> attached.
>
> What version&  arch are these from?

current 1.8 and 1.9 branches, sparc.

> How do they compare with the last working build?

jtreg doesn't crash anymore while running the tests.