Status of 1.7

[Matthias Klose]

On 08.01.2010 20:20, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We've done some testing of the upcoming 1.7 release within Red Hat and
> don't see any regressions in JTreg.  Deepak also now believes the new
> plugin to be of a quality suitable for an alpha release as part of
> 1.7.
>
> I have a few minor fixes to add (bumping the hs16 option to the latest
> revision and fixing a very minor issue with --with-parallel-jobs not
> working if used without an argument).  I'd like to aim for a release
> on Wednesday.
>
> Does this sound suitable to everyone?

seen two issues:

  - 1.7 doesn't build on sparc64, at least on Debian. Asked if it does
    build on Fedora currently, but didn't get a reply yet.

  - the jpeg7 patch probably needs to be reverted/changed. It seems
    to be wrong to use another libjpeg than what was used for the
    build. See http://bugs.debian.org/563999.
    "sun.awt.image.ImageFormatException: Wrong JPEG library version:
    library is 70, caller expects 62.
    I can't even build using jpeg7 because of conflicting build
    dependencies.
    So either revert this patch, or stick to the jpeg version which
    was used for the build.

Matthias