[8u112] Request for approval for JDK-8074312 - Allow hotspot builds on 4.x Linux kernels.

[Jeremy Whiting]

On 21/07/16 06:23, David Holmes wrote:
> On 21/07/2016 12:20 AM, Rob McKenna wrote:
>> This appears to be fixed in 8 already, am I missing something?
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/908b2d7253fc
>
> Well that's embarrassing. :) I never actually checked, I just assumed 
> as Jeremy had run into the problem that it existed. But on closer 
> inspection I think he was building the original JDK 8 sources, not 8u.
>
> Thanks Rob.
>
> David
>
  Indeed it is embarrassing. I can confirm the jdk8 repository was 
cloned rather than jdk8u.

  Thank you Rob for spotting this mistake. Thanks also Dave for your 
helpful advice and being the sponsor.

Jeremy
>>     -Rob
>>
>> On 20/07/16 01:14, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>  I would like to request approval for backporting JDK-8074312. To allow
>>> 4.x Linux kernels to build hotspot.
>>>
>>>  I think this is the correct change set created to patch JDK9.
>>>
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/rev/471b684ff43e
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jeremy Whiting
>>>
>>>
>>>