IcedTea7 build failed for 2cd959df7e7a

[Omair Majid]

On 04/20/2011 06:51 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 14:19 Wed 20 Apr     , Omair Majid wrote:
>>> Yes, well I haven't tested CACAO in a while.   It's not high on my list of priorities.
>>> Getting the basic build working tends to be more important :-)
>>
>> I dug into the cacao errors, and it turns out there are some real
>> issues. The attached patch updates the cacao patches to apply, but it is
>> not sufficient. Cacao relies on hpi which was removed in OpenJDK7. Some
>> of the hpi methods are trivial (Close(int) becomes ::close(int)), but
>> others (like NativePath(char*)) are non-trivial. I suppose I can copy
>> over the implementation of those methods from hotspot, but I would
>> prefer to avoid doing this as an icedtea patch. Perhaps upstream cacao
>> should be taking care of this.
>>
>
> I was aware there might be a HPI issue.  Feel free to apply the patch below (with a ChangeLog).

I have pushed the patch, but I am not sure how useful it will be given 
that ./configure on CACAO fails.

> I think the CACAO developers need to sort the bigger issue if they want to retain support in
> IcedTea7.
>

Would that be the upstream CACAO developers? or the developers 
maintaining it in IcdTea7? Who should I ping?

Thanks,
Ommair