Solaris Sparc version used to build binaries?

Joseph D. Darcy Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Fri Sep 11 11:25:53 PDT 2009


Byron Nevins wrote:
> I am, working on GlassFish-DTrace.  The regular Hotspot JVM *has* 
> DTrace support coded into it.  But it is built on Solaris 8 by Sun.  
> This means all te DTrace support code is "#ifdef'd" out!
>
> What Solaris version is OpenJDK 6 built on?

Sun's 6 update JDK != OpenJDK 6.

Sun does not ship OpenJDK 6 binaries.  OpenJDK 6 binaries are built on 
whatever Solaris platform the builder is using.  At least early versions 
of OpenJDK 6 were buildable on Solaris 8; IIRC, changes may have gone 
back which now require a newer Solaris.

-Joe



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