Improving OpenJDK for FreeBSD

[Harald Eilertsen]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 10:27:12PM +0000, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> On 13:41 Fri 14 Feb 2025, Harald Eilertsen wrote:
> >
> > For the record, here's the jtreg test summary for the PR i made (with
> > one additional change, but nothing substantial):
>
> [...snip...]
>
> It might be worth putting the test changes in a separate PR which can
> likely go in fairly easily first.

I've been thinking the same. Thanks for confirming that it's a viable
approach.

> It's a shame GitHub Actions doesn't
> support BSD or each PR could then track these results.

Yeah, we really would like to see support for FreeBSD in GitHub Actions.

> > > Also, I've noticed you've already have jtreg working on FreeBSD [1] (for the
> > > upcoming jtreg 7.6?). But each JDK version uses different jtreg versions
> > > [2]. Are you planning a jtreg port in FreeBSD for these older versions?
> >
> > So far I've just used the jtreg main branch to run the jdk tests, so I
> > haven't thought about it. But that's a good point, and I will look into
> > it.
>
> Do you plan to try and backport to the long-term support (LTS)
> releases?

I'm not sure yet, but in any case I doubt I'll go for enything older
than jdk21. My focus is on the main jdk branch.

Thanks,
Harald Eilertsen