[Arm-dev] java-1.8.0 not building on armv5

[Jacco Ligthart]

>> I also checked the other log
>> (https://armv7.dev.centos.org/rpmbuild/c71708-pass-1/19329-java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.131-11.b12.el7/armv7hl/build.log)
>> about resources.jar file missing, when it finds 1.7 and I exploded the
>> rpm through rpm2cpio to verify the content and yes, there is a
>> permission issue in the -headless package :
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.141-2.6.10.5.el7.arm/jre/lib/resources.jar
>> is 600 so probably not readable by mock itself (argh)
>>
>> Have now to investigate if the perm issue is due to that package build,
>> or if the .spec needs some changes to force better permissions.
>>
> So the issue with resources.jar is coming from an interim build that I'm
> missing, so have to rebuild it first  (from the .spec)
>  - Reset permissions of resources.jar to avoid it only being readable by
> root (PR1437).
>  - Resolves: rhbz#1350042 (but that one is private so can't see what was
> changed)
>
> Seem linked to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207129 though
>
> So I tried to rebuild older 1.7 pkg but it fails with "duplicate case
> value" . I then found this bug report, and Jacco is included in that bug
> report, the IT world is small after all :-) :
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2942
>
> I tried fixing 1.7 openjdk with the
> +  ARM32JIT="false" \
> patch for the make to ensure that it doesn't build arm32 JIT, but for
> strange reason it still tries to build it and fails again ... some other
> investigations required to rebuild older 1.7 from pre-7.4, then the one
> from 7.4 (with the resources.jar permission issue gone) and then 1.8
> (hopefully) .. of course it happens on java, and on armhp, where each
> build needs *several* hours ....

I think the issue around ARM32JIT never got fixed, but by now ARM32JIT
is disabled by default. There should be no need to disable by hand.

Jacco