OpenJDK 6 build 14 source posted

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Joe,

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 14:35 -0800, Joe Darcy wrote:
> On 12/03/08 01:49 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: 
> > We are discussing whether or not to update to this for icedtea6 or skip
> > it completely and go with HotSpot 14 (which is already the default now).
> > I see the hotspot tests for 10 were removed and some new ones added. The
> > newer hotspot in jdk7 has even other tests. In icedtea we have combined
> > them all to have a bigger set of tests (there are 20 now). It might be
> > an idea to do the same (and push the hs 10 and hs 11 tests towards
> > hotspot in jdk7).
> >   
> I think it is useful to at least have the HS11 sources published in
> OpenJDK 6 to give the option of using the same version of HotSpot as
> currently being used in 6u10 and 6u11.  However, as previously
> discussed on the list, going forward the HotSpot team has agreed to
> use the same code base for OpenJDK 6 and the 6 update release; that
> transition will occur with HS 14 sometime early in 2009.  I hope this
> new arrangement will both keep OpenJDK 6 more up to date as well as
> reduce overall bug porting efforts.  (Unlike HS 10 and HS 11, HS 14 is
> already in Mercurial so the initial OpenJDK 6 HotSpot Mercurial
> repository will probably be retired once this switchover occurs.)

Yes. Currently in icedtea6 (and Andrew is fixing up some last issues for
icedtea[7]) HS14 is the default, but you can configure
--with-hotspot=traditional to get HS11. --with-hotspot=traditional
should also work for the default linux/sparc integration, but won't work
when combined with --enable-zero and/or --enable-shark.

Cheers,

Mark