Linker report unsupported file format for OpenJDK 8 and derivated

[David Holmes]

On 24/08/2012 1:41 PM, Phil Race wrote:
> PS
>>>> Same should be true for Linux as far as I know.
>>>
>>> No Linux is broken. There are a few places where the compiler is
>>> invoked without -m32 or -m64 and so defaults to building the native
>>> format ie 64-bit on 64-bit. See 7171653 for a problem with the sizers
>>> utility, and 7153072 in general.
>>>
>> OK, I did say "as far as I know". I only claimed what I know to be the
>> case ...
>>
>
> Actually I did know about 7171653 but I thought it was fixed ~ 2 months ago
> sometime after Gary and I discussed it.

Yes I fixed it :) I threw it in there because it was an issue you would 
have been familiar with. (sparcv9 already special-cased it). The general 
problem hasn't been fixed because the new build already handles it.

Anyway, there are problems with the Linux build that have been inherited 
by the OSX build due to their sharing of files/settings.

Cheers,
David