fastest way to rebuild hotspot?

[Andrew Haley]

Niklas Wirstrom wrote:

> Yes, I have already made a full build. Is there any documentation for
> the build process? My understanding is that openjdk-ecj is built first,
> and then openjdk is built using openjdk-ecj build for bootstrapping, 

Yes.

> and
> that modifications of the hotspot are therefore preferably made in the
> openjdk directory. Is this correct?

You can use the hotspot in either directory.  When I'm working on Hotspot
I always use icedtea-against-ecj because it save so much time on the
initial build.

Andrew.