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

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 05:34 Thu 24 Feb     , Matthias Klose wrote:
> 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

Fails to build for me too (see above), I've already reported this to Xerces.
What are the details of your failure?

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

So in short we need to bump -J-XX:ThreadStackSize=768 to 1024.
I can patch this, but you'll at least have to test it.

> >> 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?
> 

I doubt it did before:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/6e7f2c1f25df

as it wasn't actually compiling any of the Shark code.
The problem is now that OpenJDK builds but doesn't run as it can find libLLVM.
I guess we need to use -rpath or something so it can find the library it linked
against during build at run-time.  Unless you have any better suggestions?

>    Matthias

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Andrew :)

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