63173 - [RFE] nightly builds should not use v8+

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Brian Hechinger]

please change your nightly builds to use v8 instead of v8+

the v8+ keeps all of us with older SPARC hardware from using the nightly builds,
where as v8 would allow us to do so.  just as reference, i use superSPARC and
HyperSPARC CPUs in SPARCstation 20 machines.

thanks,

-brian

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW. Seems like a decent enough proposal to me. But then again I dont use Solaris so what do i know :)

Comment 2

[cls]

*** Bug 63761 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[cls]

Attachment: Turn off ultrasparc optimizations by default. Add --enable-ultrasparc option

Comment 4

[cls]

Brendan, can you review this change?  It turns off the ultrasparc checks in
configure by default so that builds made on ultrasparc can be used on other v8
class machines.  If someone wants the ultrasparc opts used in js, they will need
to specify --enable-ultrasparc.  The other alternative is to flip the option and
change the nightly builds to use --disable-ultrasparc.

Comment 5

[Jon Granrose]

cc jim for his input.

Comment 6

[Jim Dunn]

Adding Rick (sun), Rich is it cool to switch from v8+ to v8

Comment 7

[Rich Burridge]

Yep, it looks cool to me. Chris, thanks for doing this!

Comment 8

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

I'm ok with the change (cls needs no sr= from me, see
http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/reviewers.html#exceptions) provided jdunn and Sun
folks do exercise the compare-and-swap-optimized JS locking code, and enable
that code in any commercial product builds that target the right hardware.

/be

Comment 9

[Rich Burridge]

At the moment we have no plans to do and specially compiled versions
of Netscape/Mozilla. We compile a generic version that will run (hopefully
acceptably) on all Solaris machines. We do not have the QA resources or
the support resources to test/maintain numerous different versions. Adding
George to the CC; for his comments.

Comment 10

[cls]

The patch has been checked in.  Marking fixed.

Comment 11

[drapeau]

Agree with Rich Burridge: Sun won't be making a V9-specific version of Netscape 
6 for Solaris for now; if and when there is significant interest in such a 
version (or it's deemed strategic to Sun), we'll do it.

This bug fix looks cool to me.

Comment 12

[Jon Granrose]

verified.

Comment 13

[Brant Gurganus]

[RFE] is deprecated in favor of severity: enhancement.  They have the same meaning.