Re: Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

2008-12-19 Thread Martin Buchholz
build 42 has come, and the JDK binaries no longer work on my system (32-bit Ubuntu dapper). java -version gives an instant crash with floating point exception. Not very friendly. I have always liked the fact that in the past Sun's JDK engineers put in great effort to ensure that JDK binaries

Re: Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Martin, On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 00:52 -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote: build 42 has come, and the JDK binaries no longer work on my system (32-bit Ubuntu dapper). java -version gives an instant crash with floating point exception. Not very friendly. I have always liked the fact that in the

Re: forward-port IMPORT_BINARY_PLUGS to OpenJDK7

2008-12-19 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 12:25 +0100, Christian Thalinger wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 16:42 +0200, Daniel Fuchs wrote: Hi guys, I could take care of applying the same patch than what I did a few months ago for OpenJDK 6. Namely, if you compile OpenJDK with the binary plugs, the SNMP

Re: Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Martin, On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 09:32 -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:57, Mark Wielaard m...@klomp.org wrote: Are there any official GPL binaries for OpenJDK these days? No, but I encourage Sun and encourage others to encourage Sun to provide those, at least for

Re: Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

2008-12-19 Thread Kelly O'Hair
These are not official product binaries but early access binary snapshots, you can't expect these binaries to be perfect by any means. They are also not OpenJDK7 builds but JDK7 builds. It was decided that we needed to update our JDK7 Linux build systems, so we had to do something to move out of

Re: Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

2008-12-19 Thread Andrew Haley
Martin Buchholz wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:27, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: As an example of the cost of building on old boxes, OpenJDK contains prototypes for epoll(7) that are incorrect for some arches. These We are changing the subject slightly from portability of binaries

Re: Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Martin, On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:37 -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:53, Mark Wielaard m...@klomp.org wrote: Still, if they were around I would indeed take a look and compare stuff a bit with my local builds if I had any strange test failures for example.