[7u6] Request for approval for CR 7168520 No jdk8 TL Nightly linux builds due to broken link in b39-2012-05-13_231

[Daniel D. Daugherty]

Greetings,

This is a request to backport a JDK 8 fix into JDK 7u6:

7168520 1/3 No jdk8 TL Nightly linux builds due to broken link in
             b39-2012-05-13_231
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7168520

The fix has recently been pushed to JDK 8, as:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/ce165aa48dcb

and will be included in the JDK8-B42 PIT snapshot. I've requested
a respin of the JDK8-B40 PIT snapshot, but I haven't gotten
confirmation yet.

This fix has been reviewed on build-dev at openjdk.java.net:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2012-May/006158.html

and hotspot-runtime-dev at openjdk.java.net:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2012-May/003708.html

and serviceability-dev at openjdk.java.net:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/serviceability-dev/2012-May/006065.html

The three review threads are currently identical.

The JDK7u6 and JDK8 jdk repo patch files are identical.

Dan