[Java] [ahughes at redhat.com: Re: /hg/openjdk6-mips: Add information in README and env.sh; added a...]

[Joe Darcy]

Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 20:38 Wed 10 Nov     , 敖琪 wrote:
>   
>>> aoqi:
>>> 你订了distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net了么？回答一下Andrew的疑问吧。
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Forwarded message from Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:00:08 +0000
>>> From: Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
>>> To: liuqi at icedtea.classpath.org
>>> Cc: distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>> Subject: Re: /hg/openjdk6-mips: Add information in README and env.sh;
>>> added
>>> 	a...
>>> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
>>>
>>> On 06:30 Tue 09 Nov     , liuqi at icedtea.classpath.org wrote:
>>>       
>>>> changeset 82bf91673f25 in /hg/openjdk6-mips
>>>> details:
>>>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/openjdk6-mips?cmd=changeset;node=82bf91673f25
>>>> author: Ao Qi <aoqi at loongson.cn>
>>>> date: Tue Nov 09 13:21:20 2010 +0800
>>>>
>>>> 	Add information in README and env.sh; added a missing file to make
>>>> 	the completed build.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Why have you added back the information about binary plugs?  These haven't
>>> been required for years.
>>>       
>> Our port is based on OpenJDK6_b18, so the binary plugs are needed during
>> building jdk.
>>
>>     
>
> No, they aren't.  That's why the build documentation was updated to begin with:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/rev/073cdf699427
>
> Even b16 doesn't need binary blobs.  Not sure about ones before that.
>   

Binary plugs haven't been needed to build OpenJDK 6 since b07:
http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/openjdk_6_sources_for_b07

-Joe