[PATCH] Remove support for building Zero with bundled HotSpot

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/5/8 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> 2009/5/7 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>:
>> > Once upon a time, IcedTea used the HotSpot supplied in the
>> > OpenJDK 6 tarball.  This didn't contain the C++ interpreter,
>> > so for Zero and Shark a patch was created to upgrade the
>> > HotSpot to a (somewhat arbitrary) newer version that did.
>> >
>> > Nowadays, IcedTea uses an upgraded HotSpot by default, one that
>> > contains the C++ interpreter.  This patch removes support for
>> > building Zero and Shark with the original HotSpot, an option
>> > that has not worked for some months.
>> >
>> > Ok to commit?
>>
>> Looks ok to me, but it'd be nice to have a ChangeLog in the mail,
>> so we can see more easily which patches are being removed :)
>
> Ah, attached.
>

Cheers.   Looks right to me, based on what we did for 7 and hs14.

>> I'd be tempted to go the whole hog and just drop the remaining
>> original patches, but up to you... :)
>
> It's tempting... is anyone using them?
>
> Cheers,
> Gary
>
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I've only ever heard of doko using them, that's if they still work.
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Andrew :-)

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