[8u-dev] Request for approval for CR 8022177: Windows/MSYS builds broken

[David Buck]

approved

Cheers,
-Buck

On 2018/04/19 0:34, Kevin Walls wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to request approval to backport from 9 to 8u:
> 
> 8022177: Windows/MSYS builds broken
> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8022177
> 
> 9 changeset:
> URL:   http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/rev/13255d60e919
> 
> 9 review thread:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2014-August/012920.html
> 
> 
> We're not claiming any specific support for MinGW the minimalist GNU for 
> Windows, this is more about getting the refactoring/naming
> changes which make further changes easier.
> 
> This is a clean backport, except for the change in flags.m4: in later 
> JDKs (since 8037825), we have warnings as errors,
> but we don't do that in 8u so I won't apply that line.
> 
> Plus I regenerate generated-configure.sh.
> 
> Thanks
> Kevin
>