Building IcedTea6 specifiing --with-hotspot-src-zip

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/1/30 Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>:
> Andrew,
>
> I am/was trying to use a zipped hotspot from the bsd-port repo.  As far as I
> know, there are no archives for the bsd-port.

Errr... http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port/hotspot/archive/tip.zip

The links are on hg.openjdk.java.net. It's an automatic feature of
Mercurial's web frontend.

>
> To make my life easier, I just patched hotspot-f9d938ede196 with all the bsd
> changes.  I'll see how far that gets me.
>
> Michael
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Andrew John Hughes
> <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>
>> 2009/1/30 Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am using a recent clone of IcedTea6 and trying to specify my own
>> > hotspot
>> > version by specifying a zip file using --with-hotspot-src-zip.
>> >  Configure is
>> > happy with this, but when the build runs the logic assumes that hotspot
>> > expands into the directory hotspot-f9d938ede196, this is determined by
>> > the
>> > hotspot.map file.  Is there a way to work around this?  I could change
>> > the
>> > directory that I unzip to, but ...
>> >
>> > Is it assumed that we would only want to build with a specific version
>> > of
>> > hotspot?
>> >
>> > Michael
>> >
>>
>> It is assumed that the HotSpot zip is a hg changeset in the same form
>> as those returned by the automated process which occurs when you don't
>> specify a zip file.  You should be able to use any changeset that is
>> in the map.  What exactly is the zip you are using?  I would expect it
>> to be a copy of
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot/hotspot/archive/f9d938ede196.tar.gz
>> given what you say.
>> --
>> Andrew :-)
>>
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