[Bug 631] icedtea6-1.9.7 fails to build on ppc/ppc64

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http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=631


gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|major                       |normal
             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WORKSFORME
            Version|unspecified                 |6-1.9.7




------- Comment #10 from gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org  2011-02-16 21:58 -------
Why did you alter the version this is reported against?

You are specifying
--with-openjdk=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.${_arch} .  The
--with-openjdk option (now --disable-bootstrap in HEAD for clarity) is a
shortcut to enable a quick build if you already have a copy of IcedTea
installed, but it can happen that there are conflicts between the version of
OpenJDK being compiled and the installed OpenJDK.  That's what's happening here
due to changes introduced by the security patches.

As Caster has mentioned already, you can still build using the standard
./configure and make method which uses gcj to do an initial bootstrap and
actually tests the built JDK by building itself with it.  Alternatively, if you
really want a quick build, you can do so without webstart and the plugin. 
These versions are outdated anyway and will be disabled by default in any
future releases of this branch.  You should start looking at switching to
IcedTea-Web as these versions receive security fixes ONLY.

We don't make build changes on release branches because the risk far outweighs
the gain.  Changing things could cause much worse breakage, while the only
problem here is that the hacky quick build is broken with webstart and netx
enabled, a problem which can be easily worked around by using different build
options.


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