Builds and webrevs

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 01/11/2018 20:33, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 11/01/2018 08:01 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> we do have foreign+vector which is similar to amber-demo in spirit, that is, it attempts to showcase
>> all that's available in the repo.
> Good to know! Here's the webrev for it:
>    https://builds.shipilev.net/patch-openjdk-panama-foreign-vector/latest/
>
> It seems that branch is behind default branch, and so it takes in a lot of unrelated fluff? Or maybe
> my webrev script is misbehaving.

The branch is behind because there are some conflicts in the vector 
branches (and linkToNative) which prevent the auto merge from happening.

I'll take a look tomorrow (but for vector it's better if somebody in the 
vector team does that).


>
>> Building foreign is non trivial though, because of its dependency with libclang... for Linux and Mac
>> it should be ok to just grab one of the LLVM binary snapshots available here:
>>
>> http://releases.llvm.org/download.html#7.0.0
>>
>> And point configure at it (--with-lib-clang=<path to LLVM snapshot>)
> Ah, that's a wrinkle. Still, not a blocker. First binaries for foreign+vector are coming here:
>    https://builds.shipilev.net/openjdk-panama/
>
> That is, first _build failures_ are coming there, because current x86_64 is broken without PCH, see
> the other thread with patch. Pretty sure it would fail some other architectures, because not all
> arches have LLVM snapshots. I'll deal with that later.
Thanks
Maurizio
>
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>