are there changes for building mlvm now that 1.7 is released?

[Christian Thalinger]

On Aug 19, 2011, at 12:58 AM, John Rose wrote:

> On Aug 17, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> 
>> I'm basing my mlvm builds on clones of the following two mercurial forests:
>> 
>>   hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port sources
>>   hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm patches
>> 
>> Complete build scripts here: https://gist.github.com/243072
>> 
>> Are there changes I should make since Java 1.7 has been released?
>> 
>> I know work is in progress to integrate the bsd and macosx ports into the mainline source ... but I don't expect this to be 
>> complete for some time.
> 
> I'm open to suggestions on this one.
> 
> It seems to me that the bsd-port repo. is slowing down prior to absorption into the mainline.
> 
> In this case, maybe the rational thing is to reparent to a faster-moving repo.
> 
> In particular, I think we should reparent to from bsd-port/bsd-port to hsx/hotspot-comp .  That's (approximately) where our future is anyway.
> 
> Current diffs only in bsd-port (which are necessary for mac builds!) can be posted as a suitably conditional part of the mlvm patch queue.
> 
> Comments?

I concur!  Moving to hsx/hotspot-comp would be a very good idea.  That would make publishing patches to mlvm a lot easier.

-- Christian

> 
> -- John
> 
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