Mercurial check out for a particular JDK8 build

[Shrinivas Joshi]

Hi David,

Thanks. It worked for me.

-Shrinivas

On 6/2/2013 10:56 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 3/06/2013 6:16 AM, Shrinivas Joshi wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a question regarding mercurial checkout steps. What is the right
>> way to check out source for the master and the nested repos (jaxp,
>> langtools ..etc) for a particular JDK 8 build from
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/ ? I didn't find much luck with hg
>> clone and hg update for particular revision/changeset number (705 in
>> case of JDK8-b89?). Probably I need to pass the right arguments to
>> get_source.sh script but I am not sure what they should be.
>
> I don't think get_source.sh can aid you here.
>
> You need to specify a build tag on the -r option of clone, and using 
> the forest extension to do an fclone is probably simplest eg:
>
> > hg fclone -r jdk8-b42 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8 jdk8-b42
>
> David
> -----
>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> -Shrinivas
>
>