RFR(S): Some AIX changes to build the complete OpenJDK on a 'vanilla' AIX system

[Jonathan Lu]

Hi Volker,

On 09/14/2012 05:35 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> could you please review the following (mostly build) changes which I
> needed in order to build the complete OpenJDK on a 'vanilla' AIX
> system:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/aix_change_1/
>
> My main question is if they would break your current make system.

I've tried your patch on my AIX64 and LinuxPPC64 boxes, it did not break 
anything for me :)

> The second question for now is how we want to handle dependencies on
> non-standard libraries like zlib, freetype and Xrender: should we
> require that the user installs them, should we copy them into the JDK
> distribution (as already arranged for by the OpenJDK build system for
> freetype) or just statically link all these libraries?

For your changes to src/share/native/sun/font/layout/KernTable.cpp, I 
have not met that before, is it caused by different compiler levels? I'm 
using XL C/C++ compiler version 11.1.0.11.

Thanks and best regards
Jonathan

>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Volker
>