Hiya Magnus , On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 14:18 +0100, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > On 2013-11-18 21:05, David Holmes wrote: > > Of course these configuration points have been defined based on our > > needs for the Oracle JDK versus OpenJDK, so there is no claim of > > general applicability or suitability for all potential users who want > > to customize the build and/or sources. Happy to adapt in reasonable > > ways of course. > > I agree. > > We have a couple of systems in place for building with custom additions, > and different variants. But they are adapted to what we needed. > > Dave, if you can specify more precisely what kind of additions and > alterations you need, I can suggest ways to do that, that is likely to > fit in the OpenJDK build system, and that might help to develop these > hooks into more generally useful ones. But unfortunately it is quite > dependent on exactly what kind of additions that are needed. > > /Magnus >
In the process of attempting to describe the changes I'm playing with, I've realized that I've made a coupla wrong assumptions and completely inflexible and thus inappropriate, design decisions. I'll post further once I believe I have a more generally applicable/useful model to impart ... Rgds, -- 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
