[MERGE FOR REVIEW] HotSpot 23.25-b01 Merge

[Mark Wielaard]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 02:24:26PM -0400, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Maybe a build server for windows builds will help? If there exists a
> > spare server (e.g. at redhat) I can setup automated windows builds there
> > (or write detailed instructions how to do it). It will take some time
> > though, and I'm not sure about Microsoft licensing issues (for windows
> > 2000, windows 2003x64 and MSVS2003).
> 
> I don't know of any Windows machines at Red Hat :)
> 
> Mark Wielaard has a build infrastructure in place to which you could
> attach a machine that was able to do a build when prompted.  I don't
> think anyone has ever tried it with Windows though.  CCing him as he
> knows much more info about it than me.

I think it (buildbot) should also work against Windows.
But you are right that till now we have only used it against
normal GNU/Linux slaves:
http://builder.classpath.org/icedtea/buildbot/buildslaves

I am afraid I am not a big help with Windows since I never used that
operating system. Easiest would be if we could setup a build using
a mingw cross compile and run the tests under Wine. I could probably
setup a slave that does that.

Cheers,

Mark