OpenJDK7 build and contributions

[Ivan Krylov]

Hi Mani,

I think it is reasonable to expect that OpenJDK7 will follow the 
footsteps of OpenJDK6.
Oracle will select a company that would declared as the maintainer of 
the project. For OpenJDK6 the maintainer is Red Hat.
That company will set the policies for updates, etc.

In my understanding, at this moment jdk7 is in a transition state, 
basically - locked, until further announcements.

If you are already a JDK member - you can go ahead a file a bug already. 
The bug can get voted and someone interested will eventually fix it.

I could copy-paste the description that you gave, provided that you 
specify the Fedora release number, versions of the kernel and tools 
(g++, ld, etc.).
Kindly let us know if you see the same with openjdk8 or not.

Thanks,

Ivan

On 07/05/2015 00:50, Mani Sarkar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does EOL of Java 7 mean this mailing list and the hg repo won't be active
> anymore? Are you still accepting contributions for OpenJDK7 - who can
> contribute and what kinds of contributions are accepted?
>
> I also have tried to build OpenJDK7 on Ubuntu and builds fine but when
> building on Fedora I get this error:
>
> Linking vm...
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
>
> I also get this message:
>
> If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
> in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
> specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR'
> flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
>     - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
>       during execution
>     - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
>       during linking
>     - use the `-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
>     - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf'
>
>
> Are both these caused by LD_LIBRARY_PATH not set to where stdc++ library is
> placed ? This is causing the hotspot repo to break from building, all other
> repos build fine.
>
> What's a proper fix ?
>
> Cheers,
> Mani
>