Kelly, > Or do the extra credit and just build a merged 32+64 image by default.
I'm second to it. -Dmitry On 2012-11-29 08:01, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: > >> On 28/11/2012 19:45, Kumar Srinivasan wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it possible for the new infra, to produce a composite image of both >>> server and >>> client VMs on Solaris 32-bit >> --with-jvm-variants=client,server --with-target-bits=32 >> >>> >>> For extra credits is it possible to build the 64 bit image as well and have >>> it merged >>> into a composite image of 32-bit variants ? >> I don't know about that, but the "overlay-images" will create the 64-bit >> overlay that we are used to. Personally I think we should get rid of the >> overlay have have separate 32-bit and 64-bit images like the other platforms. > > My tendency is to go this route too. Or do the extra credit and just build a > merged 32+64 image by default. > > One of the reasons 32 and 64 builds were separate for Solaris was the fact > that we had to build x86 on Solaris 8 > but x64 on Solaris 10, way back in jdk5 and jdk6. I know it adds to the > Solaris build time, but my tendency now > is to declare that all Solaris builds contain both 32 and 64 binaries, and > pay the price in build time. > Someday, we can abandon the 32bit version completely, on all the platforms, I > can dream. ;^) > > -kto > >> >> -Alan. > -- Dmitry Samersoff Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia * Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer
