icedtea6 build failures on alpha and armel using gcj

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 8 March 2010 12:41, Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 08.03.2010 13:34, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>> further, is it correct that the -ecj patch is applied to *both* the
>>> openjdk
>>> and openjdk-ecj directory?
>>>
>>> $ ls -l build/openjdk*/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/misc/FloatConsts.java
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 2 doko doko 4147 Feb 17 03:14
>>> build/openjdk-ecj/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/misc/FloatConsts.java
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 2 doko doko 4147 Feb 17 03:14
>>> build/openjdk/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/misc/FloatConsts.java
>>>
>>> these are still hard links.
>>
>> No it's specifically only applied to -ecj patches.
>
> Wrong. The patch is applied in the openjdk-ecj directory, but because all
> files are hard links, it's applied in the openjdk directory as well. I don't
> see a way to have patch break the hard links while patching.
>

Ok, I didn't realise it was a hard linked copy.  I'll disable that; we
don't want the ecj patches affecting the main tree.

>> You should only
>> ever ship a build created from the openjdk tree and not
>> openjdk-ecj/boot (i.e. the second stage of a full build or the result
>> of a --with-openjdk/--disable-bootstrap build), which has a number of
>> features turned off (including Nimbus).
>
> sure, this is always done in the Debian/Ubuntu builds. I didn't check this
> for other distributions.
>
>  Matthias
>



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