jdk11u: Windows 32 bit broken

[Martijn Verburg]

We are building Win32 at Adopt for 11 and hope to continue for jdk as
well.  We have a win32 specialist in the team who I’ll make aware of this.

Cheers,
Martijn

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 12:03, Doerr, Martin <martin.doerr at sap.com> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> the Windows 32 bit version of jdk11u was usable until the backport of
> JDK-8210647 yesterday.
> We only want to keep it alive in 11u, but we need to push fixes to jdk/jdk
> and then request the backport.
>
> Best regards,
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Kashchenko <akashche at redhat.com>
> Sent: Freitag, 12. Oktober 2018 12:49
> To: Doerr, Martin <martin.doerr at sap.com>; jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Cc: Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com>; Baesken, Matthias <
> matthias.baesken at sap.com>
> Subject: Re: jdk11u: Windows 32 bit broken
>
> Hi,
>
> On 10/12/2018 10:21 AM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> We only build 32 bit with jdk11u, no longer with jdk/jdk that's why
> >> we didn't notice it before today.
>
> Just FYI, starting with jdk11 we don't build 32-bit builds anymore for
> Red Hat jdk-windows releases.
>
> Also, citing from [1]:
>
> On 09/14/2018 09:37 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>  > Oracle is not building 32-bit Windows regularly, and I don't think
>  > anyone else is doing that. (Perhaps AdoptOpenJDK?) In such a scenario,
>  > the code quickly bit rots. There has been no decision as of yet to
>  > remove the code from the code base, but unless someone steps up to
>  > maintain the code base, it's unlikely to survive in the long term.
>
> >
> > [...]
> >
>
> [1]
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2018-September/023270.html
>
> --
> -Alex
>
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Cheers, Martijn (Sent from Gmail Mobile)