sync'ing the hotspot repository with JDK8

[Henri Gomez]

If you have a working process like :

- grabbing jdk8/jdk8 branch
- applying known patch sets

We'll not be too far to be able to produce such JDK8 + Lambda on OSX.



2012/3/15 Keith McGuigan <keith.mcguigan at oracle.com>:
>
> I don't know if it will enable building of full JDKs/JREs on Mac, as there
> might be changes in the 'jdk' repo that are needed as well (and I was only
> going to sync 'hotspot').  We might be able to build Mac JVM though.
>
>
> On 3/15/2012 4:57 AM, Ben Evans wrote:
>>
>> Hi Keith,
>>
>> Will such a synch allow a lambda-capable Mac build?
>>
>> If so, please go for it, as my understanding is that it's still
>> proving problematic to produce such a binary build.
>>
>> In the AdoptAJSR / AdoptOpenJDK projects we have a bunch of Mac users
>> who are champing at the bit to have a play with lambdas. :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Keith McGuigan
>> <keith.mcguigan at oracle.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Any objection to be me sync'ing the lambda hotspot repository with the
>>> jdk8 hotspot repo (i.e., pulling jdk8 into lambda)?
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Keith
>>>
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