[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





------- Comment #11 from mark at klomp.org  2011-02-16 22:09 -------
(In reply to comment #10)
> Why did you alter the version this is reported against?

Not deliberately, maybe some weird bugzilla glitch.

> 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.

It looks to me that it is actually because of the weird netx build rule that
apparently includes the wrong source version. So it was a latent bug that
was just exposed by this security fix.

> 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.

I don't agree with your priorities (we shouldn't make fixes on release branches
that break working configurations). But since you maintain the branch and not
I. OK. Lets keep it closed. You are definitely right that there are workarounds
available.


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