[oe] [meta-java] Trying to update openjdk-7 to icedtea 2.5.4 and jdk75b13

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Sven,

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Sven Ebenfeld <sven.ebenfeld at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've managed to build and run OpenJDK-7-75b13 on an armv7 target but now
> I run into an issue reported all around in the net:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1851
>
> I'm adressing the same issue with the quartz library on my target as in
> the last comment. For this specific case it looks like the segfault is
> thrown on a call to Object.clone() within the quartz library.
> Unfortunately I don't find any bugfix or other hint for fixing that
> issue. Other sites state, that "-XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags" works around
> that issue. This is right but it makes the VM painfully slow. So it
> looks like either the ThumbEE or the whole ASM optimizations won't be
> used with that option.
> http://blog.timmattison.com/archives/2014/08/29/deal-with-os-linux-zero-dot-cpp-related-jvm-crashes-without-using-the-oracle-jvm/
>
> I've looked for solutions a lot but didn't find anything helpful, yet.
> Any ideas?
>
> If anyone wants to play around with my current work. Please have a look
> at my fork on github https://github.com/esven/meta-java/tree/jdk_update

It would be good to hook a gdb on this before the failure and try to
see if something can be identified which might help fixing the root
cause of the issue?

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