IcedTea6 1.6 Released!

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/9/10 Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> 2009/9/9 Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>:
>>> On 09.09.2009 22:59, Andreas Radke wrote:
>>>
>>>> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-openjdk-home
>>>> Was has been changed here?
>>> run configure --help and look for the changed configuration options. Yes, we
>>> missed to document these changes.
>>>
>>>  Matthias
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, the important bit you missed off that big listing was the
>> options you were passing to configure :)
>>
>> But if you change --with-openjdk-home to --with-openjdk, all should be well.
>>
>> I did document this in 7... it just seems that bit didn't get backported :(
>
> Can you please back-port the documentation change?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
>
>

Sure, how's this?

  * INSTALL: Update documentation to reflect recent changes and add
Shark requirements.

It appears --with-openjdk was never even documented, never mind this change :(
Let me know if this is ok to commit and on which branches to do so.
I'm also plan to forwardport the two NEWS changesets from 1.6 to HEAD;
is that ok?
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Andrew :-)

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diff -r 7da45c5bcfa0 INSTALL
--- a/INSTALL	Thu Sep 10 14:16:04 2009 +0100
+++ b/INSTALL	Thu Sep 10 14:22:13 2009 +0100
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
 
 For building the zero-assembler port (see below), you will need libffi.
 
+For building the Shark JIT, you will need LLVM 2.5 or current SVN.
+
 For building with systemtap support (--enable-systemtap), you will need
 systemtap-sdt-devel (available since systemtap 0.9.5). This also needs
 the --with-abs-install-dir configure option to make sure the hotspot.stp.in
@@ -51,21 +53,20 @@
 
 See ./configure --help if you need to override the defaults.
 
-To bootstrap IcedTea with ecj:
+To bootstrap IcedTea with ecj and a Classpath-based JDK such as GCJ:
 autoreconf
 ./configure 
 make
 
-To build IcedTea with an older version of IcedTea, use:
+To build IcedTea with an older version of IcedTea or OpenJDK, use:
 autoreconf
-./configure --with-icedtea 
-	[default location: /usr/lib/jvm/java-icedtea, 
-		to specifiy location use --with-icedtea-home=/path/to/icedtea]
+./configure --with-openjdk 
+	to specify the location use --with-openjdk=/path/to/icedtea]
 make
 
 There is currently no install target.
 
-IcedTea ends up in openjdk/control/build/<os>-<arch> when the build completes.
+IcedTea ends up in openjdk/build/<os>-<arch> when the build completes.
 Example instantiations of <os>-<arch> include linux-i586, linux-amd64 and linux-ppc64.
 
 Rebuilding The IcedTea Plugs