RFR: 8166189: Fix for Bug 8165524 breaks AIX build

[Kumar Srinivasan]

Hi Volker et. al.,

Was a bug opened to track this ? I still see these files around
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/ff45c582ca8a/src/java.base/aix/native/libjli

Would you like me to create a bug for you ?

Thanks
Kumar

On 9/29/2016 9:59 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2016-09-29 16:54, Alan Burlison wrote:
>>> On 29/09/2016 08:03, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry, but that doesn't sound like a solution to me at all. I think we
>>>> should keep the OpenJDK sources self-contained. I don't want to depend
>>>> on yet another non-standard, third party library which doesn't even
>>>> exist now.
>>>
>>> Unless I'm completely misunderstanding, that's not what is being proposed.
>>> What is being proposed is refactoring code that's currently duplicated
>>> across the JVM & JDK into a common library. Such a library would be a
>>> standard Java component, not non-standard and not third-party. I can't see
>>> what the problem is, to be honest.
>>>
>> Volker's comment above was directed at the suggestion of taking the
>> problematic AIX specific code out of the OpenJDK repositories and create a
>> separate library with a separate lifecycle somewhere else that OpenJDK for
>> AIX would then need to depend on. Volker was instead proposing what you
>> describe.
>>
> Thanks Erik, this is exactly what I meant :)
>
> And I think the solution you ssketched in your previous mail is the
> right way to address this problem.
>
> Regards,
> Volker
>
>
>> /Erik