OpenJDK 6 build 16 source bundle posted

Kelly O'Hair Kelly.Ohair at Sun.COM
Thu Apr 23 08:57:45 PDT 2009



Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 17:44, Kelly O'Hair <Kelly.Ohair at sun.com> wrote:
>> That looks exactly right for the old tarball created from the
>> old TeamWare workspaces (which had a control workspace).
> 
> 
>> The conversion to Mercurial folded the control workspace files into
>> the top or enclosing Mercurial repository.
>> The control/make/Makefile moved to ./Makefile and the
>> control/make directory moved to ./make.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification, Kelly.
> 
> I'm surprised by this reorganization of the old jdk6 builds,

Remember, OpenJDK6 derived from OpenJDK7, which has this same layout.

-kto

> but I guess it doesn't matter too much going forward.
> Having the additional history in mercurial is very nice,
> but if I ever want to rebuild an old build, I'l use the tarballs.
> 
> Martin



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