Test build of main hotspot repositories with our port

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Thank you, Goet

On 7/8/13 7:38 AM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the recent past we had several changes that broke features used
> in the ppc aix port.  So far we only detected these after updating
> hotspot in the staging directory and building that with our patches
> on top.

Sorry about that.

>
> To detect such issues early, we installed a build that
> -Clones the 5 hsx hotspot directories

We don't push major changes into -main but for completeness you are right.

> -Pulls the changes from the staging directory there
> -Applies the remaining patches
> -Builds this and does a very basic test.
>
> The results can be seen here, in the second table:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/ppc-aix-port/index.html

Could you add testing of your port on MacOS? We had few issues on it with the port before.

> Today, the test shows that the core build is broken, I filed a fix for
> that.  In future we hope to catch such problems even more early.

We file a bug and push your fix.

> Best regards,
>    Goetz.

Thanks,
Vladimir