Thanks Dalibor, Ivan for chipping in and giving a better idea of how things will flow for OpenJDK7 since its EOL.
Cheers, Mani On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Mani Sarkar <sadhak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Does EOL of Java 7 mean this mailing list and the hg repo won't be active > anymore? Are you still accepting contributions for OpenJDK7 - who can > contribute and what kinds of contributions are accepted? > > I also have tried to build OpenJDK7 on Ubuntu and builds fine but when > building on Fedora I get this error: > > Linking vm... > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > > > I also get this message: > > If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries > in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and > specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR' > flag during linking and do at least one of the following: > - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable > during execution > - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable > during linking > - use the `-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag > - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf' > > > Are both these caused by LD_LIBRARY_PATH not set to where stdc++ library > is placed ? This is causing the hotspot repo to break from building, all > other repos build fine. > > What's a proper fix ? > > Cheers, > Mani > > -- > @theNeomatrix369 <http://twitter.com/theNeomatrix369>* | **Blog > <http://neomatrix369.wordpress.com>** | *LJC Associate & LJC Advocate > (@adoptopenjdk & @adoptajsr programs) > *Meet-a-Project - *MutabilityDetector > <https://github.com/MutabilityDetector>* | **Bitbucket > <https://bitbucket.org/neomatrix369>* * | **Github > <https://github.com/neomatrix369>* * | **LinkedIn > <http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/mani-sarkar/71/a77/39b>* > *Come to Devoxx UK 2015:* http://www.devoxx.co.uk/ > > *Don't chase success, rather aim for "Excellence", and success will come > chasing after you!* > -- @theNeomatrix369 <http://twitter.com/theNeomatrix369>* | **Blog <http://neomatrix369.wordpress.com>** | *LJC Associate & LJC Advocate (@adoptopenjdk & @adoptajsr programs) *Meet-a-Project - *MutabilityDetector <https://github.com/MutabilityDetector>* | **Bitbucket <https://bitbucket.org/neomatrix369>* * | **Github <https://github.com/neomatrix369>* * | **LinkedIn <http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/mani-sarkar/71/a77/39b>* *Come to Devoxx UK 2015:* http://www.devoxx.co.uk/ *Don't chase success, rather aim for "Excellence", and success will come chasing after you!*
