Subject: Re: [bug#41871] [PATCH 0/7] IcedTea: Build (efficiently) on aarch64-linux

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:24:15 +0200

Hi Simon,

my apologies for the very long delay!

> This patch series applies a number of changes to the icedtea-6, -7 and -8
> packages that allow them to build (efficiently) on aarch64-linux systems.
>
> It assumes the patches in issues 41748 and 41648 have already been applied, in
> that order.
>
> With these three sets of patches I've been able to complete the entire Java
> bootstrap process on both AArch64 and x86_64 and have successfully compiled
> and run a Java application on AArch64 using OpenJDK 14.

This looks really great!  I have yet to read the patches in 41748 and
41648, but these patches here look good to me.

Thank you very much for working on this!

-- 
Ricardo