OpenJDK6 B31 Now Available

[Alex Kasko]

Hi,

On 04/16/2014 06:46 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The OpenJDK6 b31 source release is now available for download:
>
> https://java.net/projects/openjdk6/downloads/download/openjdk-6-src-b31-15_apr_2014.tar.gz
> sha256sum: ef5dfda9649dc5a6a923eda34389006df0d8f8158351d89730307a70897e1229
>
> Or:
>
> https://java.net/projects/openjdk6/downloads/download/openjdk-6-src-b31-15_apr_2014.tar.xz
> sha256sum: 362d9bf20e91393b52dd0513896d39831cf320c49bd4bf1e28124f21569b72eb
>
> This release contains a number of security fixes as well as fixes for
> severe regressions in the previous release(s) of OpenJDK6. Anyone using
> OpenJDK6 b30 or earlier is strongly encouraged to update.
>
> A complete list of all changes is available here:
> https://openjdk6.java.net/OpenJDK6-B31-Changes.html

I noticed changes in AWT code and some of them seem like Windows-only. 
What is the reasoning behind porting Windows changes like these ones [1, 
2] ? As I understand, windows changes themselves kind of unintended. 
Maybe they contain changes to shared code that will be used in Linux and 
the Windows-specific changes are ported just as parts of the commits?

I am trying to build it on Windows and these AWT changes have some 
discrepancies. Windows AWT code in jdk7 was changed heavily and it's 
hard to make these "partly-backported" version compilable. Could you 
please advise me, what is the better way to fix this - I can either try 
to backport more required AWT changes from jdk7 or to revert some of 
these changes from jdk6?

>
> Please note that builds based on this do not pass the TCK.
>
> A special thanks to Andrew Hughes who backported all the patches.
>
> Onwards to b32!
>
> Cheers,
> Omair
>


[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/c9811d39f7e9
[2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/7286ee9b3ce4

-- 
-Alex

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