IcedTea7 build failure + patch to fix this issue (reviewer needed)

[Mark Wielaard]

On Mon, June 6, 2011 15:02, Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> currently it's not possible to build IcedTea7 because of wrong sha2sums
> of all tarballs. As Mark Wielaard figured out (thanks!) it is caused by
> changes made in .hg_archival.txt file, probably in time when new tag is
> created (Mark - am I right?).

Yes. Unfortunately hg archive tries to be helpful. And if you add a tag
for a revision it will happily record that information in the
.hg_archival.txt file. Which of course then alters the checksum even though
all other bits are the same. This happened when the icedtea-1.4 tag was
added.

I guess the only way to work around that in the future is for people to
tag a tree that the icedtea Makefile.am refers to before they add the
checksum value.

Thanks for catching and fixing it.
Hopefully this won't happen too often in the future.

Cheers,

Mark