2011-03-10 20:17, John Coomes skrev:
Johan Walles (johan.wal...@oracle.com) wrote:
2011-03-10 10:33, Anthony Petrov skrev:
Hi Andrew,
On 3/10/2011 3:48 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
[snip]
Hey, I'd just make it all one repository as they all interdepend on
each other
One huge "all-in-all" repository is great for integrators, porters, or
maintainers, but it isn't that convenient for developers working on
specific areas of JDK. Primarily because of the unnecessarily increased
build time.
Build time wouldn't be an issue if you could build a single component by
itself by just cd:ing into the component directory and do "make" there.
So I pull the entire tree, make some changes, do a build.
Right, so now you've built Hotspot (let's say that's your component).
I want to
sync with the latest changes in my component (whatever it is), but
have to pull everything.
OK, now you have the latest and greatest sources for all components,
including Hotspot.
To save build time, I build just my
component.
Your Hotspot binary is now up to date with the source changes you pulled in.
But then my built bits no longer correspond to my source
tree. Debugging becomes a new challenge.
I think I missed something earlier, but why would the Hotspot binary you
just built not correspond to the sources you just built it from?
Regards /Johan
