On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 13:40 +0100, Erik Joelsson wrote: > Hello, > > On 2016-12-05 12:17, Severin Gehwolf wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 11:07 +0100, Erik Joelsson wrote: > > > > > > This patch adds libffi to the linux devkit to enable building of zero. > > > It also adds optional bundling of the libffi library with the JDK. The > > > reason for this is that the devkit sysroot is based on a distro that > > > uses libffi.so.5 while most distros we build or run tests on comes with > > > libffi.so.6, and those are not compatible. Static linking was > > > considered, but libffi.a doesn't seem commonly available where we would > > > need it. > > > > > > I'm also adding Jib profiles and a JPRT configuration which enables > > > building of zero on Linux x86 and x64 for the "buildinfra" testset in > > > JPRT. Note that these builds are currently not clean (for OracleJDK > > > builds at least). > > Does this mean you are going to add Zero to your tested build configs > > (via JPRT)? So far my knowledge was Oracle didn't build the Zero port > > at all. From looking at the bug, it seems this is about to change. > This change alone will not add Zero to the standard set of tested > configs. It will only make it easier for Oracle engineers to verify zero > builds on demand. There is a related bug filed for adding zero builds to > the standard hotspot pre checkin jobs, but I can't say if that change is > going to be made at this point.
Thanks, Erik. Cheers, Severin
