problem building compiler with nb 6m10

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Peter,

I believe Tim Bell is working on mirroring the internal staging  
repositories to alleviate the problem.

-- Jon


On Aug 3, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Peter Ahé wrote:

> If you're going through svn as setup by release engineering, you will
> have to wait a long time.  Unfortunately, that is setup so it can take
> more than four weeks for a change to get through, see the discussion
> at the end of this:
> http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/upcoming_compiler_fixes
>
> What you really need is patience while Jon fixes the real issue:
> direct access to a shared repository.  Unfortunately, the path is
> blocked with obstacles surprisingly neither of technical nor legal
> nature.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> On 8/3/07, Per Bothner <Per.Bothner at sun.com> wrote:
>> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>> I am sorry for the inconvenience.  We have been focussing our  
>>> limited
>>> efforts
>>> on a single new build system for the compiler and related tools that
>>> will be
>>> used by Sun's Release Engineering, and compiler developers, and  
>>> any other
>>> people interested in working on the  compiler via Ant or NetBeans.
>>> This will replace the disparate build systems in use today by these
>>> different
>>> audiences.
>>
>> I'm very much looking forward to it!
>>
>> Until then, could Jesse's patch be checked in?
>>
>> (I should have bugged you earlier about the issue - you probably
>> didn't realize that it really was an inconvenience for us.
>> Partly our fault for going down the wrong path, using snapshots
>> without svn.  Fixed now, I believe.)
>> --
>>         --Per Bothner
>> per.bothner at sun.com   per at bothner.com   http://per.bothner.com/
>>