IcedTea6 1.10 Branch Open for Business! Release: 2nd of March, 2011

[Matthias Klose]

On 24.02.2011 01:59, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 22:49 Wed 23 Feb     , Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> IcedTea6 has now officially branched for the 1.10 release.
>> The planned release date is a week from now: *Wednesday, the 2nd of March, 2011*
>> Please start your test machines!
>> All commits to the 1.10 branch (as with other release branches) require PRIOR APPROVAL.
>>
>> Known issues:
>>    * Shark fails with hs20: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=639
>>    * JamVM does not yet build (as in ./configure --enable-jamvm).

More issues:

  * JamVM fails to build on powerpc
  * hs20 fails to build on powerpc, see PR641.

>> If these issues are not resolved prior to the release date, the options will be
>> disabled in configure and fixes welcome (dependent on approval) for later minor
>> releases.
>>
>> If b22 is released prior to the release date with the expected minimal changes of
>> security fix integration, IcedTea6 1.10 will use this release instead of the current
>> b21.  This avoids us having to carry those security fixes on the release branch
>> permanently.

> I made progress on the Shark issue via http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/883350003da5
> It still fails to link though :-(

it works on Debian/Ubuntu. If the shared library is not installed in /usr/lib, 
shouldn't llvm-config or LLVM_LDFLAGS be adjusted?

   Matthias