jdk 8 port: hotspot builds and runs

[Jonathan Lu]

Hi Goetz,

Great! hope we'll have a workable OpenJDK AIX build for Java8 soon.

On 03/22/2013 08:45 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> With the changes I just pushed to the ppc-aix-port jdk8 repository,
>
> hotspot builds and runs on linuxppc and aixppc, including the c2 compiler!
>
> Two features are not yet supported:
>
> -Compressed oops.  I still need to adapt ppc to the new
>
> UseCompressedKlassPointers optimization.
>
> -Method Handles.  Volker is about to submit this to jdk7, and
>
> then will push it into 8, too.
>
> I tested this by dropping the vm into our jdk7.
>

Have you tried to build HotSpot in Java8 repository? especially with the 
new build infrastructure. Because I got following error when trying that.

flags.make:97: /home/luchsh/ppc8/hotspot/make/aix/makefiles/tiered.make: 
No such file or directory
gmake[5]: *** No rule to make target 
`/home/luchsh/ppc8/hotspot/make/aix/makefiles/tiered.make'.  Stop.
gmake[4]: *** [product] Error 2
gmake[3]: *** [generic_build2] Error 2
gmake[2]: *** [product] Error 2
gmake[1]: *** [/home/luchsh/ppc8/build/hotspot/_hotspot.timestamp] Error 2
make: *** [hotspot-only] Error 2

> We will now start to setup complete jdk8 builds for linuxppc and install
>
> our tests.
>
> Best regards,
>
>   Goetz
>
Best regards
Jonathan
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