Building modified OpenJDK with IcedTea?

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 25 February 2010 12:31, Peter Libic <libic at dsrg.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am doing some performance measurements of GCs in Java and I need to make
> some instrumentation in the virtual machine to get required data.
>
> I was thinking of using IcedTea for this - building working JVM from OpenJDK
> is quite difficult for me.
>
> So, I'd like to ask, if there's some simple way how the IcedTea could use my
> modified copy of OpenJDK (without rebuilding from scratch at every build)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter Libic
>

The configure option --with-openjdk-src-dir=<path to dir> :-)
That's how I test with the latest OpenJDK6 from Mercurial.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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