This is the mail archive of the java@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the Java project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Build-Breaking MingW 3.3 Stuff


Hi Andrew,

>At this stage in the 3.3 release process we need to be careful about
>what we do.

A couple more questions concerning this stuff:

- What about the case of the _Jv_select() problem, where I believe that
  the logic is incorrect on all platforms, but the bug only manifests itself
  on Win32? Would a patch for this be considered a Windows-specific
  patch?

- Does the "be careful" part preclude any sort of cross-configury patch
  going into 3.3? (As of Friday night, I think I have a pretty decent one.)

What would be your attitude about your personally committing MingW-specific
code which is guaranteed not to mess up the Posix build, such as changes to win32.cc
or nat*Win32*.cc? Would you be inclined to let these slide or would we
need to find a maintainer with a Windows box in all cases? And what happens
if a maintainer doesn't step up to bat for a non-trivial change? (Like I said,
I'm new to this, so I don't know how many people have a
3.3 tree + Windows box + commit access.)

-- Mohan
http://www.thisiscool.com/
http://www.animalsong.org/





Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]