Re: Howto build an old version of hotspot (pre forest consolidation)

2017-11-13 Thread Volker Simonis
Hi Erik, thanks for the explanation and suggestions. I've managed to find the offending change (8145322: Code generated from unsafe loops can be slightly improved) just to find out that Roland already sent out a RFR for the fix (RFR(S): 8190375: Java Crash in JavaBug.formatPos(I)Ljava/lang/String

Re: Howto build an old version of hotspot (pre forest consolidation)

2017-11-13 Thread Erik Joelsson
Hello Volker, The recommended way of actually building source from pre-consolidation is to clone a tree from that day and age (jdk9 in this case). That said, it should be possible to build the consolidated repo as well (as long as you are working in an OpenJDK only situation). The merge of t

Howto build an old version of hotspot (pre forest consolidation)

2017-11-13 Thread Volker Simonis
Hi, can somebody provide any hints on how to build an older version of hotspot in the correct context? I have a reproducible hotspot crash which occurs with jdk-9+105 but not with jdk-9+104. I can sync to both tags and successfully build the corresponding jdk. But it seems impossible to update th

Re: RFR: JDK-8190725: Freetype license file provided with configure not included in images

2017-11-13 Thread Magnus Ihse Bursie
On 2017-11-03 21:34, Erik Joelsson wrote: The inclusion of the freetype license file has stopped working. For the -ri windows profile, we set --with-freetype-license, but the makefile logic for creating the java.desktop jmod is broken and doesn't pick it up. This patch fixes the FindModuleLegal