[PATCH] zerovm drops downloading fixlet

Andrew Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 16:02:28 PDT 2012


----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> While investigating the other build issue with zero I noticed that
> when
> we build zerovm in its own directory the drops directory. This leads
> to
> extra unnecessary downloading. The attached patch solves it by just
> symlinking to the top level build drops directory.
> 
> I intend to add this to the icedtea6 tree. I haven't investigated
> whether this is also a problem with 7.
> 

As I've noted before, these add rules are not supported.  The correct
way to build Zero is with --enable-zero.

Thus, I'm not surprised if things with these add-zero rules are broken
and you are welcome to fix them if you want, as long as you don't affect
the standard build.

> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> [Text Documents:zerovm.drops.patch]
> 

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