On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:09:27PM +0100, Iulian Dragos wrote: > I'm trying to build a version of JDK7 with invoke dynamic support.
Hey Iulian. Me too. Unfortunately I took on the added excitement of trying to do it on OS X, where the main bsd-ports tree is broken, so I have to apply an additional patchset from Michael Franz to fix the int32/intptr issues. I had pretty much the same experience as you, but I think I got somewhat further. After seeing that the web site instructions didn't actually apply the patches, I applied them in order by hand, i.e. by calling patch myself. Most hunks were successful; most failures were easy to track down; a couple required some head scratching. I eventually got them applied, but the build failed late in a way that made me suspect I'd made a bad decision, most likely in the callcc patches. With my much improved knowledge of the whole process, I was going to undertake it again from scratch like so: check out the jdk sources, and revert to the last revision the mlvm patches are checked against (which should be b38) in the jdk, hotspot, and langtools repositories: hg revert --all -r jdk7-b38 Then apply the mlvm patches, and finally use hg to merge forward to b40 or b41, wherever we are now. Unfortunately I hurt my neck yesterday and I think this email is about all the computing I'm going to be able to manage today. I too am a total mercurial novice which makes this much harder; I'm gitifying the forest next time first, so if I do get this working (and can keep the osx patches distinct from the mlvm patches) I'll be happy to send you patches. P.S. Thanks for fixing "return from lazy val". -- Paul Phillips | A Sunday school is a prison in which children do Imperfectionist | penance for the evil conscience of their parents. Empiricist | -- H. L. Mencken i pull his palp! |----------* http://www.improving.org/paulp/ *---------- _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
