changeset in /hg/icedtea6: 2009-01-08 Matthias Klose <doko at ubu...

[Matthias Klose]

Andrew Haley schrieb:
> Matthias Klose wrote:
>> Andrew Haley schrieb:
>>> doko at ubuntu.com wrote:
>>>> changeset 48a808c06395 in /hg/icedtea6
>>>> details: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6?cmd=changeset;node=48a808c06395
>>>> description:
>>>> 	2009-01-08  Matthias Klose  <doko at ubuntu.com>
>>>>
>>>> 	        * patches/hotspot/14.0b08/icedtea-no-precompiled.patch: Don't use
>>>> 	        precompiled header files in hotspot.
>>>> 	        * HACKING: Document the above.
>>> Has there been any discussion about this?  I can't remember seeing
>>> any.  This is a regression for those of us working on HotSpot.
>> No, the patch is not applied, just checked in for convenience. Does this require
>> discussion?
> 
> In general, changes should be discussed.
> 
> As this one is not applied I suppose it's not a substantive change.
> However, I would really like to know what problem it's supposed to
> solve.

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2009-January/004396.html
did show the need to build without precompiled headers. instead of having
everybody to figure out how to do this, I checked in the patch. Sure this could
be moved to a patches/contrib or patches/unused directory as well.