IcedTea for OpenJDK 8 Updated

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 03:25:25PM -0400, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > I've just pushed a changeset which does a mass update / cleanup of
> > IcedTea for OpenJDK 8, allowing it to build the latest b80 from
> > upstream OpenJDK.
> > 
> > Most patches have been removed to give us a clean start and there's
> > a lot of build change, including the use of OpenJDK's new build
> > system, so no doubt things will be broken / missing at first.
> >  Things as
> > basic as system library support have yet to be added back in.
> > But this is a start.  Please file bugs at
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla for issues you encounter
> > or just supply a patch if it's something simple.
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I've ended failry soon - on hg fclone phase
> 
> $ make
> hg fclone http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea8-forest openjdk;
> abort: repository 'http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea8-forest'
> is
> not local
> make: *** [stamps/download-openjdk.stamp] Error 255
> 
> I use the hgforest from icedtea, with attached patch to work-around
> API
> changes in mercurial 2.3 [1].
> 
> [1] http://selenic.com/hg/rev/a06e2681dd17
> 
> As I have no experience with hg, neither hgforest, I have no idea
> about
> the error message.
> 
> Best regards
> Michal Vyskocil
> 

Hmm, how are you configuring?  I'm planning to rip out the fclone
stuff, which still lurks in IcedTea for 6, 7 & 8, as forest is
pretty much unmaintained.  It's not been high priority as most
people never use that.  It's only enabled if you pass
--enable-hg which you shouldn't need to do.
-- 
Andrew :)

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