On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 3:07 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi! > > On 08/16/2017 06:43 AM, David Holmes wrote: > >> What are you proposing for Alpha and all these other platforms? >> > > They work fine with the Zero port and we have been using Zero on > these Debian for several years now. For most architectures, just > adding the autoconf definitions is enough to get them to build > OpenJDK Zero. > > Some additional minor patches are necessary sometimes. For example, > on Alpha we need to patch autoconf not to pass "-Dalpha" during > build but "-D_alpha_" as there is already a variable named > "alpha" in some of the sources which breaks the build. > > For any port supported by the OpenJDK there needs to be an active >> segment of the community that is prepared to be the "caretakers" of that >> port. >> > > You're right. But since these platforms use only Zero, this point > doesn't apply. > > Zero itself is not exactly well maintained, and maybe accepting these trivial patches causes Debian developers to adopt Zero more. This would be a good thing. Just my 5 cent. ..Thomas > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
