Re: Bug#965342: openjdk-15: Please update build configuration for sparc64

[Rick Leir <rleir@leirtech.com>]

But Hotspot supported the previous version of OpenJDK. Is version 15 
Hotspot not supported because

changes are known to be needed, or just because the maintainers don't 
have the time to test it on SPARC?

As you say it is sad. Java and SPARC are the SW/HW claims to fame of the 
Sun Corp.

On 7/19/20 5:59 PM, Gregor Riepl wrote:
> > The latest pre-release version of OpenJDK 15 unfortunately dropped native Hotspot
> > support for Solaris and Linux SPARC which is why we have to resort to using Zero
> > only.
> >
> > The updated diff patches the debian/rules to reflect these changes by switching
> > sparc64 to Zero-only and dropping the configure option --enable-deprecated-ports.
> I just read up on Zero [1] [2] - it's a bit sad that things have to be
> this way with Hotspot. Hopefully the slow paths that Shark has to take
> have been improved since then (or will be improved in the future).
>
> [1]
> https://web.archive.org/web/20090531095111/http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2009/05/21/zero-and-shark-openjdk-port.html
> [2] https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ZeroSharkFaq