Re: jdk8-b73 & nashorn

2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
Hmmm, it was indeed originated as a new clone immediately followed by an 'update -r jdk8-b73' to take it back to the previous level, or so I thought. You can probably tell that I was under the impression that the commands 'clone -r level' and 'clone && update -r level' were equivalent ... self-evi

Re: jdk8-b73 & nashorn

2014-05-07 Thread David Katleman
On 5/7/2014 11:18 AM, Dave Pointon wrote: ... having said that though, with the benefit of a little hindsight and the application of not a little CM common sense, isn't there a shortfall in Mercurial in as much as I would expect an update to b73 to remove nashorn as a sub-repo from the forest

Re: jdk8-b73 & nashorn

2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
... having said that though, with the benefit of a little hindsight and the application of not a little CM common sense, isn't there a shortfall in Mercurial in as much as I would expect an update to b73 to remove nashorn as a sub-repo from the forest since it wasn't present when the tag was create

Re: jdk8-b73 & nashorn

2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
Thanx for the fast response, Dave - reply duly noted and indeed promulgated :-) Thanx again , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it - Robinson Crusoe On 7 May

Re: jdk8-b73 & nashorn

2014-05-07 Thread David Katleman
On 5/7/2014 10:18 AM, Dave Pointon wrote: Greetings fellow builders , I have a question, as the subject suggests, regarding the version of the nashorn repo - specifically, one of my current tasks is to attempt to build OJDK level jdk8-b73 but I can't find that level/tag in the nashorn repo. Is

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2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
Greetings fellow builders , I have a question, as the subject suggests, regarding the version of the nashorn repo - specifically, one of my current tasks is to attempt to build OJDK level jdk8-b73 but I can't find that level/tag in the nashorn repo. Is there a usual or even standard, method used

JDK-8037953 configure usability: Should provide better details on imported hotspot

2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
Hi , Although having to resort to the use of a different e-mail address, JIC the sig doesn't give it away :-), I'm back on the trail of adapting the OJDK build to selectively use the IBM JVM together with modifying the IBM build to better incorporate the autoconf based approach in a manner that wi