On 08/11/2016 01:05 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>
> On 08/11/2016 09:53 AM, Don Lewis wrote:
>> On 11 Aug, Kay sch...@apache.org wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/11/2016 01:42 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> If you've been checking the buildbots you'll see that all who don't use
>>>> --without-junit are currently broken in ./configure due to junit being too
>>>> old. This is unlikely to change, as the buildslaves are running Ubuntu
>>>> 10.04 which doesn't have newer versions of Junit available in apt.
>>>>
>>>> This is part of a bigger problem, which is that Junit's dependencies
>>>> changed multiple times in the 4.x releases, which is why I changed
>>>> configure.ac to need at least 4.11 (the maximum being 4.12).
>>>>
>>>> Instead of needing a correct system Junit version to run tests during the
>>>> build, and having to worry about having correct system versions of Hamcrest
>>>> on the classpath, should we not rather treat them like external
>>>> dependencies and download specific versions during ./bootstrap? It's under
>>>> 300 kB for both, and the bvt/fvt/pvt tests already download their own copy.
>>>>
>>>> Damjan
>>>>
>>>
>>> This would be OK with me. What version of the jre does Junit 4.11
>>> require? I can't find information about this on the junit site
>>> --http://junit.org/junit4/
>>>
>>> Right now, we're still spec'd at jdk 1.6 for everything except Windows,
>>> but IMO we should advance to 1.7 .
>>
>> That sounds good to me as well, but are there any issues with installing
>> a newer jdk on older Linux distributions that we still support?
>
> Andrea put out a notice for setting up a production farm of machines --
> see:
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201608.mbox/%3C57AA12CA.1090207%40apache.org%3E
>
> We'd have to use CentOS 5.11 since this is the only 5 version that is
> NOT deprecated. It looks like java 1.7 SDK is available for that
> distribution.
>
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.11/os/i386/CentOS/
>
> We also know that the older branch 4.1.2 will not work with java 1.7,
[sorry I misspoke here. 4.1.2 will NOT work with java 1.8. 4.2 works
with either java 1.7 or java 1.8]
> but I have had no problems with my older CentOS 6.8 setup with either
> java 1.7 or java 1.8.
>
> In any case, once the initial VMs in the production farm are setup,
> we'll need additional help with setup and testing. Hopefully, once we're
> out of the 4.x versions, we can move on to a later CentOS version.
>
>
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