[8u] RFR (XS) 8219636: Windows build failure after JDK-8207070 8u backport

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Feb 25 16:32:56 UTC 2019


On 2/25/19 4:12 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:

> I don't think it's practical to expect every contributor to build on
> GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and Solaris. I certainly don't have the
> means to do so.  Not backporting code that touches platform-specific
> code is one thing.  Not backporting anything that might break an
> untested platform is another.

Yes, exactly. Until we have some sort of submission test system,
post-commit testing will have to do.

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