RFR: AARCH64: Top-level JDK changes

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu Nov 13 14:28:10 UTC 2014


On 11/13/2014 02:09 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>  From my IANAL point of view, this exception should be enough to 
> disregard if the file is also distributed under GPL2 or GPL3. 
> Unfortunately, as Erik says, our lawyers are apprehensive of GLP3. So 
> while we thought that we could be able to periodically sync these files 
> with upstream (and remove our external "patches" after a while), we have 
> not been able to do so.
> 
> So, this fix will need to do the same dance with config.sub as for 
> guess.guess. Unfortunately. :(

Fair enough.  If I knew what you wanted me to do, I'd do it.

Andrew.



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