RFR: AARCH64: Top-level JDK changes

Dean Long dean.long at oracle.com
Tue Nov 18 03:20:16 UTC 2014


On 11/17/2014 4:59 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>> On Nov 17, 2014, at 4:11 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2014-11-14 21:44, Dean Long wrote:
>>>> The distribution exception is there exactly since anyone should be able to distribute the files with their configure script. That does not mean that you are allowed to edit it, though.
>>> What if we require Autoconf to be installed on the host?  Does that solve any problems?
>> No, unfortunately not.
> Why not?
Yes, not just any version of Autoconf, but a newer version with aarch64 
support.  Then we wouldn't have
to edit the script, right?

dl
>> /Magnus



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