[PATCH] zerovm drops downloading fixlet

Mark Wielaard mark at klomp.org
Fri Aug 17 05:48:40 PDT 2012


On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 19:02 -0400, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > While investigating the other build issue with zero I noticed that
> > when
> > we build zerovm in its own directory the drops directory. This leads
> > to
> > extra unnecessary downloading. The attached patch solves it by just
> > symlinking to the top level build drops directory.
> > 
> > I intend to add this to the icedtea6 tree. I haven't investigated
> > whether this is also a problem with 7.
> 
> As I've noted before, these add rules are not supported.  The correct
> way to build Zero is with --enable-zero.

Don't be silly, of course it is supported. Clearly I am supporting it :)
You might not be interested in it, but it is something distros use and
autobuilders test. And --enable-zero isn't the same thing. That builds
zero as main runtime. People use the zero addition (or other additional
runtimes) to have additional runtimes instead of supplanting the default
one to have easy choice of runtime and make testing/comparing runtimes
easier.

> Thus, I'm not surprised if things with these add-zero rules are broken
> and you are welcome to fix them if you want, as long as you don't affect
> the standard build.

Thanks, I will.

Cheers,

Mark



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