RFR: Fix zero fail to build in icedtea7-head...

[Roman Kennke]

Am Mittwoch, den 19.12.2012, 12:01 -0500 schrieb Andrew Hughes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi Andrew
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 19/12/12 09:16 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >> Attached patch is a backport of Roman's jdk8 fixes to
> > >> Icedtea7-head.
> > >>
> > >> Please review.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers!
> > >> Chris
> > >>  
> > >> PS
> > >> Webrev is here:
> > >>   http://integral-portal.lgonqn.org/temp/ChrisPhi/it7-h-20121212_zero/
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Is this upstream?  If so, what bug ID(s) does it include?  I see
> > > none in the webrev.
> > Sorry,
> > Yes its a backport of Roman's fix for 8000780 : "make Zero build and
> > run
> > with JDK8"
> > which was putback  by twisti at the end of October. Its nearly
> > identical
> > except for
> > the need to backout the Permgen Removal stuff.
> > 
> 
> Ah, thanks!  Do you know what the route is for getting it into 7u?  Do
> we need to suggest it or will they just pull it in with a bulk HotSpot update?

I would guess that we need to suggest it, and I also think that this is
our plan. However, it sortof depends on another big change that needs to
go into 7up first, Twisti already proposed it, but I think it got stuck.

Roman