PATCH: Tired of waiting for rt.jar to build?

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 08:25, Andrew Haley<aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> FWIW, I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in saying I'd much prefer to
>>> receive these 'uninteresting' mails.
>>>       
>> This particular back-port mail would have been very interesting to
>> us, since it has a huge impact on build times on some architectures.
>>     
>
> The mercurial history of openjdk6 is sadly incomplete,
> even when compared to openjdk7.
>   

Due to efforts by Kelly, OpenJDK 6 has Mercurial history since it 
branched off from OpenJDK 7.  Given the original use of teamware, there 
is not fully accurate changeset-level reconstruction from the beginning, 
but there is at least build-level information for all OpenJDK 6 builds.

-Joe