Latest instructions on getting and patching

[Ben Evans]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter <
charles.nutter at sun.com> wrote:

> Ben Evans wrote:
> > After trying several other builds, I can get a clean build providing I
> > start with SoyLatte.
> >
> > However, if I try to use any OpenJDK7 build (including Langdon's
> > binaries from last Summer), no good. It always seems to fail over the
> > Queens.java test. It doesn't always fail with the same message, and the
> > OpenJDK7 builds (including some I made myself) have otherwise worked
> > fine - they're my standard JRE for all of my Eclipse sessions at home,
> > for example, and I haven't had a single failure from them.
> >
> > Has anyone else tried to used an OpenJDK7 environment to build MLVM,
> > rather than SoyLatte?
>
> No, but I did see the Queens.java error come up once and didn't know
> why. That could be it. I wonder what the problem is?
>
> Every time I've gotten a good build, I have always built with SoyLatte.
>

Just to add my status to this thread, I've now got a solid build using
SoyLatte, and have got Remi's examples (from
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/01/method_handles.html) up
and running in my environment (including inside Eclipse).

I've written up my efforts here:
http://boxcatjunction.blogspot.com/2009/04/invokedynamic-on-os-x-update.html-
but it's mostly just a collation of the various sources I've used for
my
build.

I've also been talking with some people from the Perl world about helping
with my toy Perl-like language (which will need to use invokedynamic
heavily, if I'm understanding the use case right). I'll put out a blog post
with the state of play on that project soon.

Still no dice with using OpenJDK7 to build mlvm - if anyone does manage to
get it to build on OS X, could they let me / the list know?

Thanks,

Ben
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