Makefile patch needed when building the b20 OpenJDK source drop
Tim Bell
Tim.Bell at Sun.COM
Mon Sep 24 00:23:15 UTC 2007
Ted Neward wrote:
> Here's potentially a dumb question: is there any chance of putting the
> BinaryPlugs into the source repository? I pulled down b20, didn't check to
> see if the binary plugs had changed and kicked off a build, and it failed
> due to some changes in the binary plugs directory structure (AFAICT).
The binary plugs are tightly coupled with the source tree for a given build.
Mix-and-match probably won't work.
> (1) Am I correct in thinking the binary plugs stuff changed around a touch,
Very likely. There were also some non-trivial build changes in b20.
> (2) If that is the case, is there any chance of putting them into the SVN
> (or Mercurial) repository, so when I do a source refresh, I'll get the right
> bits even as they're changing around?
I'll ask about that. The binary plugs .jar file is under a different license
than what you get in the openjdk-7-ea-src-b*.zip file, so that could have something
to do with the separation.
Tim
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