[icedtea-web] RFC: Support building against OpenJDK9

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> * Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com> [2014-01-23 17:06]:
> > I tried to build IcedTea-Web against OpenJDK8 for the first time today
> > and ran into a two issues:
> 
> I also tried building IcedTea-Web against OpenJDK9. Only one more issue
> popped up.
> 
> OpenJDK9 no longer has a PermGen and no longer recognizes the
> -XX:PermSize option. The javadoc invocation used by IcedTea-Web fails. I
> am not sure why PermGen sizes are being specified in IcedTea-Web in the
> first place, so I would like to remove the PermGen-related flags.
> 
> The attached patch does that. Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Omair
> 
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$ hg annotate Makefile.am |grep PermSize
 57: JAVADOC_MEM_OPTS=-J-Xmx1024m -J-Xms128m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=160m
$ hg log -r 57
changeset:   57:243ab4185293
user:        Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
date:        Fri Nov 26 15:21:56 2010 +0000
summary:     Add documentation build support.

As I implied on IRC yesterday, more than happy for you to drop this :)
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Andrew :)

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