Patch for building Java8 JDK repository

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Jonathan,

great that you started working on JDK8!

could you please send the command lines you used to compile on
Linux/PPC and AIX.

Regards,
Volker


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Jonathan Lu <luchsh at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a patch to build Java8 JDK repository [1] on AIX 64 and Linux PPC
> 64, and plan to push it to  [1], before that I'd like to get some comments
> here :)
>
> The patch includes two parts,
> I) Patches ported from PPC Java7u repository [3], which includes various
> changes from 'corba' and 'jdk' repositories.
> II) Several small new changes to make the compilation pass.
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~luchsh/ppc-port-bringup-java8/
>
> Since the HotSpot patches have not yet been ported to Java8, so I was using
> OpenJDK7 builds [2] provided by Volker as bootstrapping JDK and use JDK7
> HotSpot as alternative import. So in part II) patch there's a workaround for
> non-existing VM interface.
>
> Many thanks
> - Jonathan
>
> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/jdk8/jdk
> [2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/ppc-aix-port/bootstrap/
> [3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/jdk7u
>