FYI: cacao branch

[Lillian Angel]

Now that we have a CACAO named branch in the mercurial repository, we recommend 
that you upgrade mercurial to version 0.9.4. Whereas, version 0.9.3 has some 
issues handling named branches.

For Fedora 7 users:
sudo yum --enablerepo=development update mercurial


Lillian



Christian Thalinger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Today I finally started the cacao branch in the IcedTea repository.  We
> had some smaller problems (Lillian accidentally merged the branches
> right after I created them).  Tom stripped of this merge changeset from
> the upstream repository, so everything is fine.  But probably one was
> pulling in this small time frame.
> 
> The stripped revision was a4f10f91a707.
> 
> If you think you have a broken clone, please clone again!
> 
> OK, now some words to be branch itself.  In order to switch to the
> branch just do:
> 
> $ hg update -C cacao
> 
> But be aware that -C does a cleanup!  Also see:
> 
> $ hg help update
> 
> I added all patches required and a new configure option --with-cacao.
> Currently you need a CACAO built for OpenJDK (--with-classpath=sun)
> installed somewhere and point IcedTea to that location, e.g.:
> 
> ./configure --with-cacao=/foo/bar/cacao-sun
> 
> The default location for --with-cacao is /usr/local/cacao.
> 
> Please tell me if it works for you or not (I/we know of a bug in CACAO
> that probably hangs the build, I try to fix that).
> 
> - twisti