GCC 4.7 OpenJDK Build Failure

[Gary Collins]

You need to ask for it to be installed.. 4.6 is whats default in ubuntu 12.04.. Ubuntu 12.10 will probably have 4.7

Gary
On Nov 15, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:

> 
> I just installed ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my new machine and when I get g++ I get "latest" version g++ (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3.
> Why is this?   Why can't I get 4.7 for ubuntu?
> Thanks,
> Coleen
> 
> On 11/15/2012 10:23 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>> On 11/15/2012 2:13 AM, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
>>> 
>>> Agreed, and it would obviously be interesting to know out why the original fix was lost.
>> 
>> Jon's freelist change was a big change, so it's not surprising this was lost.   I hope my new ubuntu 12.04 system can get a later gcc compiler on it so we can find these earlier.
>> 
>> this-> seemed like the simplest fix so that's why I checked it in.  I didn't know what to use with "using" at 11pm my time.
>> 
>> Coleen
>> 
>>> 
>>> /Mikael
>>> 
>>> On 2012-11-14 20:56, David Holmes wrote:
>>>> IMHO Mikaels fix should be restored.
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>>> 
>>>> On 15/11/2012 1:40 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>>>> On 11/14/2012 8:17 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>>>>>> I hear this has been reported already, but I couldn't see anything
>>>>>> obvious in the archives for the various HotSpot lists.
>>>>>> The build of jdk8 (currently b64) fails on gcc 4.7. I'm not sure when
>>>>>> it exactly regressed, but a number of people have mentioned over the
>>>>>> past week
>>>>>> or so.
>>>>>> The following webrev fixes the build (following GCC's advice):
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/hotspot/webrev.05/
>>>>>> If you've already committed something and it's in the pipes, feel
>>>>>> free to ignore this. Otherwise, we could really do with this going in
>>>>>> so people can
>>>>>> build OpenJDK8 again.
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I thought someone was already going to check this in. It's reported as
>>>>> CR 8003259. <https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8003259>
>>>>> It looks like it was also contributed by peter.levart at gmail.com.
>>>>> Jon's on vacation. We have reviewed this. I'll check it in now.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Coleen
>>> 
>> 
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