IcedTea for OpenJDK 8 Updated

[Michal Vyskocil]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 02:50:55PM -0400, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> ----- 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.

It was enabled because I've added --with-project=icedtea, which turn hg
on. Using the default jdk8 have fixed that. The configure --help was a
bit confusing, so I'll post a patch fixing it.

Thanks for a help
Michal Vyskocil

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