HotSpot 16 on OpenJDK6 build failure (was hg: jdk6/jdk6/hotspot: 3 new changesets)

[Volker Simonis]

>>
>>> This changeset is NOT in the
>>> hs16 master and is causing the OpenJDK6 build to fail once the hs16
>>> master is imported, thus blocking our progress on preparing b19.
>>>
>>
>> I previously said that I pushed this fix to HSX-16.1 which is not
>> the same as HSX-16. I never said that this fix is in the HSX-16
>> master.
>>
>
> Right, now that makes more sense.  I have no idea what HSX-16.1 is, so
> I'd assumed that it was shorthand for b01 of hs16 rather than some
> other repository we can't see.  The only repositories I'm aware of, in
> addition to the OpenJDK6 and 7 ones, are the hsx16 base and master
> ones.
>

Hi Andrew,

this is the same old story as with HSX 14 (do you remember the mail
threads "Switching to HotSpot 14 on OpenJDK6" and "HotSpot shell
games"?). The problem is that Sun has its own hg repository for every
update release (HSX14 for 6u14, HSX14.1 for 6u15, HSX 14.2 for 6u16)
and each of these HSX version has its separate change and build
history. What you see in the OpenJDK/HSX repositories is only the
first major version of these repositories. Because the HSX
repositories with minor versions have a different change history
(apart from a common ancestor) it is quite hard to (automatically)
merge them into the corresponding OpenJDK HSX repository. And no, you
can't see the minor versioned repositories.

Regards,
Volker