Differences between OpenJDK 8u and IcedTea8

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 13:07 +0100, Volker Simonis wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:56 AM Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 11:42 +0100, Volker Simonis wrote:
> > > I'll file a jdk8u request for this trivial fix.
> > 
> > I'm curious. Why isn't this a problem for later JDK versions? Do you
> > know?
> > 
> 
> Because it was fixed :)
> 
> I initially assumed it was fixed implicitly as part of the bigger jdk9
> make system rework. But now that you ask, I've looked a little closer
> and found out that it was indeed fixed explicitly by JDK-8140223 [1]
> (contributed by our friend Matthias Klose from Ubuntu). The bug also
> has the explanation for which I spent hours to find out :)
> 
> This makes it even easier - I just have to downport JDK-8140223 to
> jdk8u. From a first glance it should apply cleanly modulo the usual
> path shuffling.

Great! That makes sense. Thanks for the detective work :-)

Cheers,
Severin

> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8140223
> > Thanks,
> > Severin
> >