Regular sync-ups from the upstream?

[Chris Hegarty]

On 18 Feb 2013, at 21:45, Mike Duigou <mike.duigou at oracle.com> wrote:

> Good to hear that you got it working.
> 
> The forest extension has turned out to be unsuitable because it's not longer maintained. The current alternative is the get_sources.sh script in the root repo. (Which is actually faster than forest). I believe Kelly's latest OpenJDK README-build has eliminated mention of forest extension.
> 
> There has been work exploring alternatives to forest but to my knowledge not have yet progressed to an actual alternative.
> 
> The inability to generate webrevs for multi repo patches is the only real problem arising from lack of the forest extension.

webrev accepts a file.list that can be used to pass the names of files from multiple repos

-Chris

> Mike
> 
> On Feb 18 2013, at 12:38 , Ben Evans wrote:
> 
>> Fixed.
>> 
>> My install was not pulling correctly from hg - due to reasons which
>> seem to be related to this issue:
>> 
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2012-August/006588.html
>> 
>> Which is still not fixed :(
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Ben Evans
>> <benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Mike Duigou <mike.duigou at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> On Feb 18 2013, at 10:29 , Ben Evans wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I'd like to echo this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm trying to write a patch to java.util.regex.Pattern, which
>>>>> implements methods for use with lambda expressions, to make using
>>>>> regexps easy in Java 8.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Unfortunately, I have a couple of problems:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1) The lambdas repo doesn't currently support Mac.
>>>> 
>>>> What problems are you running into on Mac? (and where were the problems reported)
>>>> 
>>>> We haven't seen any recent problems with the new build on Mac. There are a few known problems with image rebuilds but those aren't mac specific.
>>> 
>>> I've seen a chain of problems, most of which I was able to work around
>>> - issues with lint flags, other make issues which I needed to hand
>>> coax, etc, etc.
>>> 
>>> The current failure is:
>>> 
>>> ## Starting images
>>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `)', needed by
>>> `/Users/boxcat/projects/lambda-old/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/images/lib/JObjC.jar'.
>>> Stop.
>>> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>> make[1]: *** [images] Error 2
>>> make: *** [images-only] Error 2
>>> 
>>> A re-pull a few days ago didn't help matters, but I can try another
>>> re-pull & rebuild, given that everyone is pretty sure that this should
>>> work.
>>> 
>>> Will let you know how I get on,
>>> 
>>> Ben
> 
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