RFC: move patches/javafiles.patch to patches/ecj/

Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Thu May 12 17:32:40 PDT 2011


On 16:42 Thu 12 May     , Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been looking at the patches/javafiles.patch file. It seems like 
> it adds extra classes to the file list so those classes can be added to 
> rt.jar. Surprisingly, I can build plain OpenJDK6 using IcedTea6 and it 
> contains the necessary classes.
> 
> Sounds to me like this patch should be a bootstrap patch. The attached 
> patch moves it. I did icedtea6 builds both with and without bootstrap 
> and non of the classes mentioned in patches/javafiles.patch were missing.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> ChangeLog:
> 2011-05-12  Omair Majid  <omajid at redhat.com>
> 
>    * Makefile.am
>    (ICEDTEA_PATCHES): Move javafiles.patch to ...
>    (ICEDTEA_ECJ_PATCHES): Add new patch.
>    * patches/javafiles.patch: Move to ...
>    * patches/ecj/javafiles.patch: New file.
> 
> Cheers,
> Omair

Have you tried just removing it altogether?  Can we still bootstrap?
-- 
Andrew :)

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