Re: jdk/src/solaris - time to re-visit it?

2011-11-24 Thread David Holmes
On 25/11/2011 12:39 AM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote: No-one answered my question if we need to track the posix pedigree? I.e. gnu, sysv and bsd? I would hope this would not be necessary. There would have to be a "critical mass" of duplicated code (say between Solaris and BSD) to warrant a further

Re: jdk/src/solaris - time to re-visit it?

2011-11-24 Thread Fredrik Öhrström
2011-11-24 11:11, Alan Bateman skrev: > The immediate benefit of renaming is that it would allow us to move the > Solaris and Linux specific source files out of the src/unix tree into > src/ directories. That would eliminate the need for some of > the filtering in the build and would also allow

Re: (XS) Request for review: 7109092 - link changes for embedded builds

2011-11-24 Thread Alan Bateman
On 23/11/2011 06:55, David Holmes wrote: We need to make an adjustment to the link instructions used for libjava in embedded builds, as defined in Defs-embedded.gmk webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/7109092/webrev/ Summary: system soft-float libraries need not have the level of accu

Re: jdk/src/solaris - time to re-visit it?

2011-11-24 Thread Alan Bateman
On 23/11/2011 20:48, David Holmes wrote: Alan, It's definitely tricky (lots of refactoring needed) but it definitely needs to be done at some point - however I think we already missed the opportunity to do this before integrating the BSD and MacOSX code (same on the VM side) I've often wonder