Call to Arms: OpenJDK7

[Damien Raude-Morvan]

Le dimanche 27 février 2011 18:10:10, Mark Wielaard a écrit :
> On Wed, February 23, 2011 19:28, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > We need to get our Free builds up-to-date ASAP to provide an alternative
> > to the proprietary Oracle offering.  IcedTea7 is currently horribly
> > behind.

Hi Mark,
 
> Damien (CCed) made experimental IcedTea7 trunk/1.14 packages for Debian
> based on b131: http://people.debian.org/~drazzib/debian/
> Maybe those sources/changes can be used as base to upgrade icedtea7?

I've used IcedTea7 tip as base for this work and already submitted some of my 
patches to distro-pkg-dev. Everything is publicly available on my debian 
account [1]. I would be happy if someone can merge them into icedtea 
repository [2].

This effort as some limitations :
- Cacao altvm doesn't build because of removal of HPI from OpenJDK [3]
- Zero/Shark FTBFS too (some issue on icedtea6 - seems linked to HS20) [4]
- It's based on jdk7 hg forest and not on icedtea7 hg forest (someone has to 
merge jdk7 into icedtea7 -  although I'm not sure of the purpose of this hg 
forest)

[1] http://people.debian.org/~drazzib/openjdk/
[2] http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea
[3] http://server.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154
[4] http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=639

Cheers,

PS: I'm subscribed to distro-pkg-dev@, so no need to CC me.
-- 
Damien
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