icedtea6 build failures on alpha and armel using gcj

[Matthias Klose]

On 08.03.2010 13:34, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> further, is it correct that the -ecj patch is applied to *both* the openjdk
>> and openjdk-ecj directory?
>>
>> $ ls -l build/openjdk*/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/misc/FloatConsts.java
>> -rw-rw-r-- 2 doko doko 4147 Feb 17 03:14
>> build/openjdk-ecj/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/misc/FloatConsts.java
>> -rw-rw-r-- 2 doko doko 4147 Feb 17 03:14
>> build/openjdk/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/misc/FloatConsts.java
>>
>> these are still hard links.
>
> No it's specifically only applied to -ecj patches.

Wrong. The patch is applied in the openjdk-ecj directory, but because all files 
are hard links, it's applied in the openjdk directory as well. I don't see a way 
to have patch break the hard links while patching.

> You should only
> ever ship a build created from the openjdk tree and not
> openjdk-ecj/boot (i.e. the second stage of a full build or the result
> of a --with-openjdk/--disable-bootstrap build), which has a number of
> features turned off (including Nimbus).

sure, this is always done in the Debian/Ubuntu builds. I didn't check this for 
other distributions.

   Matthias