Today I thought I would try to build openjdk from source. Following the guide it says to install Mercurial 0.9.4 or newer, and also install the Forest Extension. The initial link for forest has a broken link for download, and a email to the maintainer bounced with unknown domain. The alternative link for a version post-1.0 release, does work, but the extension fails on Mercurial 1.7.<br>
<br>I&#39;ve supplied a patch to that version [<a href="http://bitbucket.org/pmezard/hgforest-crew/overview/">http://bitbucket.org/pmezard/hgforest-crew/overview/</a>] and hopefully the openjdk documentation will work as currently document shortly.<br>
<br>Whilst trying to get the Forest Extension working, it appears the preferred solution from Mercurial 1.7 onwards is to use subrepos which will be maintained by mercurial instead of via a plugin.<br><br>So openjdk might need to switch to using subrepos and/or change the documentation too.<br>
<br>I thought I&#39;d let people know as I thought building from source might have issues, but I never thought getting the source in the 1st place would be the issue, which might put people off who want to help.<br><br>John<br>
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