Re: wip/jdk16 status

David Brownlee <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.user,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 13 December 2010 21:13, Francois Tigeot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> wip/jdk15 shares some files with wip/jdk16. One of these shared
> files causes errors during installation of jdk15 on some platforms
>
> For the record, the exact error message is
>
>  => Running POST-INSTALL script actions
>  Error occurred during initialization of VM
>  Dumping a shared archive is not supported on the Server JVM.
>
> and this is due to a known bug in the jdk itself: the command
> java -Xshare:dump is not supported on 64-bit JVMs.
>
>  http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=6f0bd5a4767ffffffffffc73e7f7978c67ff?bug_id=6739899
>
> I'd like to correct this behavior and not run this command
> unconditionally on all types of machines.
> I have to modify INSTALL.tmpl in wip/jdk16 for that.
>
> It seems wip/jdk16 is not very active. Is there a maintainer I can
> contact ? Should I create a patch or modify the file myself ?

I think jdk16 has been idle long enough that its open season on fixes :)

I would suggest you go ahead and commit directly.
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