Request for Review: Add hotspot support for building with mingw/msys on build-infra (the new build)

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Fri Oct 26 12:48:35 UTC 2012


On 2012-10-26 10:04, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> Since fixpath actually isn't technically needed when building hotspot, 
> we can work around this differently in Hotspot. Maybe that is the 
> pragmatic way. But I still believe it's theoretically wrong with not 
> handling a CC= which contains more than a path to an executable. :-)
> ...
> But then again, we can probably do without this patch, if we make 
> things differently in build-infra. We're already doing some weird 
> special stuff for Hotspot builds that I guess adding another exception 
> won't be that different. I'll look into it.

I just pushed a fix for this in build-infra, meaning this patch is not 
needed anymore. Let's drop it.

(Kelly: it also means that now your JPRT Windows runs should work out 
fine! :-))

/Magnus



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