Re: [blfs-support] Building OpenJDK

2017-04-08 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 08/04/2017 20:56, Paul Rogers wrote: As of your request, it makes no sense that the maintainer of the java page publish his test results. A point does not make statistics... Also, I do not have always the time (or the will) to sort out all the test failures. Last time I run the tests, I had

Re: [blfs-support] Building OpenJDK

2017-04-08 Thread Paul Rogers
> As of your request, it makes no sense that the maintainer of the java > page publish his test results. A point does not make statistics... > Also, I do not have always the time (or the will) to sort out all the > test failures. Last time I run the tests, I had consistently more than > 50 errors,

Re: [blfs-support] Building OpenJDK

2017-04-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 03:34:44PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: > > > Also I think we have put too much emphasis on tests in the book at a certain > > time. It was a waste of time, because tests more often reflect upstream > > inability to fix things than something going real

Re: [blfs-support] Building OpenJDK

2017-04-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Also I think we have put too much emphasis on tests in the book at a certain time. It was a waste of time, because tests more often reflect upstream inability to fix things than something going really wrong. And it is very unlikely that a particular test show something wro

Re: [blfs-support] Building OpenJDK

2017-04-06 Thread Pierre Labastie
On 06/04/2017 19:53, Paul Rogers wrote: > In evaluating the tests, the book makes reference to: > http://download.java.net/openjdk/testresults/8/ > > However, that page is updated regularly, with every build they make, > at the moment 152, so is virtually useless for comparison. May I > suggest/r

[blfs-support] Building OpenJDK

2017-04-06 Thread Paul Rogers
In evaluating the tests, the book makes reference to: http://download.java.net/openjdk/testresults/8/ However, that page is updated reqularly, with every build they make, at the moment 152, so is virtually useless for comparison. May I suggest/request the book include the test results relevant at