b17

[Joe Darcy]

Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> 2009/9/30 Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>>  
>>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Now that HotSpot 14 is merged, are we going to have a b17 release?
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Real soon now :-)
>>>
>>>    
>>>> I thought this is what we were waiting on, but it seems more
>>>> changesets are being added
>>>> (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/langtools/rev/f754eab3d93a)
>>>> without any public discussion on the mailing list.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> There is another javac fix to go back in b17 and a recently added 
>>> test needs
>>> to be moved.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Ok, are these backports from OpenJDK7? I haven't seen anything on the
>> list other than the commits.
>>
>>  
>>> I'd also like to see a port of your DeoptimizeALot fix since I think it
>>> affects one of the tests currently in the OpenJDK 6 HotSpot repo.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/6886353/webrev.01/
>>
>> Same bug, same bug ID, different patch.  The two tests affected in
>> hs17 aren't present in hs14, but a test that's not in hs17 is.
>>   
>
> Please push this change.
>
>>  
>>> The preliminary tests I've run on b17 look good.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> What tests?  JTreg or something else?
>>   
>
> jtreg.
>
>> I think IcedTea6 has support for building against hg.  We should do
>> that before the release.
>>   
>
> Sounds prudent.
>

Hello.

Other than Andrew's fix for the HotSpot test, all the planned fixes for 
b17 are back in the OpenJDK 6 repository now so it would be a good time 
to start building and testing IcedTea6 against the upstream repo.

-Joe