OpenJDK7 build and contributions

[Mani Sarkar]

Thanks Dalibor, Ivan for chipping in and giving a better idea of how things
will flow for OpenJDK7 since its EOL.

Cheers,
Mani

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Mani Sarkar <sadhak001 at gmail.com> 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
>
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