Status of the hotspot repo in the build-infra forest
Magnus Ihse Bursie
magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Thu Oct 25 06:59:46 PDT 2012
The hotspot repo has for a long time been problematic for build-infra,
since we have not really kept it up-to-date -- changes in
build-infra/hotspot has not been pushed properly, and we have diverted
from upstream hotspot, which made new fixes require additional manual
work to sort out, with the added risk of human errors.
I have now done a thourough analysis of the hotspot situation. This is
my findings: We have two sets of differences, compared to hotspot in the
build forest. The differences compared to hotspot-rt/hotspot are the
same, apart from the new stuff in hotspot-rt that has not yet reached
build/hotspot.
The two differences are:
* The incomplete Queens/test-in-build patch, which is complete and
correct on build-infra, but not the build forest.
* A patch to allow build-infra to run on msys.
I have sent Kelly a patch that will compensate for the first.
I have sent a webrev for the second. If there is any problem with this,
we can skip it for now -- the "only" thing that happens is that the new
build won't be able to build on msys in mainline. It's unfortunately,
but it's not a regression since we've never had msys support there before.
/Magnus
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