building cacao as an additional VM

Michael Starzinger michi at complang.tuwien.ac.at
Tue Mar 3 10:16:50 PST 2009


On 03.03.2009, at 18:48, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/3/3 Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>:
>> Triggered by archive administrators and security people who don't  
>> want to care
>> about two copies of the OpenJDK code in a distribution, I tried to  
>> build cacao
>> as additional VM in the same source package and avoiding separate  
>> builds.

This is quite cool!

> I presume these are headed for the patches subdirectory? How about a
> cacao subdirectory of patches rather than the cacao prefix to make
> things easier?

I don't expect a lot more Cacao-specific patches, so I would still  
stick to the prefix option.

Best regards,
Michael




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