JDK8 Preliminary Repository Layout

[Steve Poole]

On 15/03/11 10:44, David Holmes wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Steve Poole said the following on 03/15/11 19:27:
>> I don't know how much cross-repo changes go on.   It would seem that 
>> if that is minimal then the next logical step would be to
>> remove the source for the repos you're not working on and just have 
>> the binaries instead.    Do you see that as a worthwhile goal?
>
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by this but working on different 
> repos we often do just use the "binaries" for other parts. For hotspot 
> for example my build process was the create the new libjvm.so file and 
> simply drop into a JDK. I never needed to build the JDK to do that. I 
> imagine the JDK folks do something similar and just drop an updated 
> rt.jar into an existing JDK, or an updated libjava.so etc. Sometimes 
> when I'm working on JDK changes I'll just use Xbootclasspath to test 
> things out with an existing JDK.
>
Do you have to still check out all the repos to build the libjvm.so ?    
I'd like to get to the position of not having to checkout the hotspot 
repo to build the class libraries and vice versa.

> David Holmes
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