RFR (XS) 8033946 - Hotspot build should ignore "ide" folder

Karen Kinnear karen.kinnear at oracle.com
Thu Sep 4 17:21:40 UTC 2014


Gerard,

I'm a bit confused  - if you have an ide to build the entire jdk - what happens?
I was a bit surprised to see a hotspot specific change?

Also - can't you store your favorite IDE project outside of the repository?

thanks,
Karen

On Sep 4, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Gerard Ziemski wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> Please review a very small fix that makes hotspot build ignore "ide" folder, which is where local users can store their own favorite IDE projects.
> 
> For those interested, I have an Xcode project for JDK8 and JDK9 that I am personally actively supporting and using, which is hosted at https://orahub.oraclecorp.com/gerard.ziemski/xcode that is meant to be put in "jdk/hotspot/ide" folder.
> 
> 
> Summary of fix:
> 
> Exclude "ide" folder from the makefile that searches for hotspot src files, or otherwise make bails out complaining that it does not know how to handle Xcode project files.
> 
> 
> Testing:
> 
> Passes local build on Mac OS X
> 
> 
> References:
> 
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8033946
> 
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gziemski/8033946_rev0/
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> 



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