Re: icedtea6 build failures on alpha and armel using gcj
Andrew John Hughes <[email protected]>
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On 8 March 2010 14:36, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 12:44:59PM +0000, Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> 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. > > Applying a patch to a hardlink copy does not affect other copies. > patch creates a new file (hence breaking the hardlink). At least when > using the patch command in the default way. Maybe it has an option for > working in place on files, but I have never looked for such an option > so I have no idea. > > The linux kernel package has been relying on this for years as have many > other packages. > > Please don't change it since it won't make any difference other than to > take more diskspace and time to do a build. > That does make more sense as to what I was seeing; the openjdk-ecj patches have never affected the main openjdk tree in the past that I've seen. Reverted. > -- > Len Sorensen > -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8