Re: RFR: JDK-8031767 Support system or alternative implementations of zlib

2016-02-11 Thread Martin Buchholz
Currently the pendulum is swinging away from multiple applications sharing common libraries towards every application being self-contained, perhaps because disk space is dirt cheap and because of the rise of "containers". It may be that much of the packaging of jdks will be picked up by third part

[8u-dev] Request for review and approval for bug 8147807: crash in libkcms.so on linux-sparc

2016-02-11 Thread Alexey Ivanov
Hello, Could you please review the fix for JDK-8147807 and approve push to 8u-dev? JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8147807 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aivanov/8147807/jdk8/webrev.00/ The issue is not relevant to jdk 9. The fix just removes kcms service leaving lcms as the

Re: RFR: JDK-8149647 Incremental enhancements from build-infra

2016-02-11 Thread Erik Joelsson
flags.m4: spelling "contitionally" Otherwise it looks good enough to me provided that it builds and output is still the same. /Erik On 2016-02-11 12:20, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: Here is another batch of small fixes and enhancements from the build-infra project forest. * Compiler version f

RFR: JDK-8149647 Incremental enhancements from build-infra

2016-02-11 Thread Magnus Ihse Bursie
Here is another batch of small fixes and enhancements from the build-infra project forest. * Compiler version framework: - Create a TOOLCHAIN_CHECK_COMPILER_VERSION macro - Test for minimum versions for certain compilers in configure * Start supporting mapfiles on all platforms (windows and

Re: RFR: JDK-8031767 Support system or alternative implementations of zlib

2016-02-11 Thread Seán Coffey
On 11/02/2016 00:25, Xueming Shen wrote: One of the benefits of moving to the system libz is actually for better/easy maintenance. Just replacing the offending version of libz with an earlier/later version that works, instead of waiting for a customized jdk/jre image with a working/bundled l