Re: lcms and pisces quality [was: Re: Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9]

2008-12-22 Thread Andrew John Hughes
2008/12/22 Dmitri Trembovetski dmitri.trembovet...@sun.com: Hi Mark, Mark Wielaard wrote: Hi Dmitri, On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 17:00 -0800, Dmitri Trembovetski wrote: Mark Wielaard wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 14:21 -0800, Kelly O'Hair wrote: The JDK7 early access binary snapshot builds

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

2008-12-21 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Dmitri, On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 17:00 -0800, Dmitri Trembovetski wrote: Mark Wielaard wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 14:21 -0800, Kelly O'Hair wrote: The JDK7 early access binary snapshot builds are built from the OpenJDK7 sources, plus additional files and repositories we either cannot

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

2008-12-20 Thread Martin Buchholz
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:39, Kelly O'Hair kelly.oh...@sun.com wrote: So what we need to do is figure out if there is a way to build on Fedora9 that allows the product to work better on other systems, or if we need to change to something other than Fedora9. Constructive suggestions are

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

2008-12-20 Thread hwadechandler-openjdk
To: Kelly O'Hair kelly.oh...@sun.com Cc: disc...@openjdk.java.net; build-dev build-dev@openjdk.java.net; Xiomara Jayasena xiomara.jayas...@sun.com Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 4:07:15 AM Subject: Re: Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9 On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:39, Kelly

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: 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.