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| author | Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> | 2005-07-20 21:24:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Tromey <tromey@gcc.gnu.org> | 2005-07-20 21:24:56 +0000 |
| commit | 42e13a3f91574ff73985c73a54f84cfb14d95f46 (patch) | |
| tree | 06be3056afcb1a7ae6d02f3a28f668dd4768a983 /libjava/HACKING | |
| parent | 4db8040cd4deb681b4bfe51535345eca42cbd42b (diff) | |
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* HACKING: Updated.
From-SVN: r102202
Diffstat (limited to 'libjava/HACKING')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libjava/HACKING b/libjava/HACKING index df74b06..410b1cc 100644 --- a/libjava/HACKING +++ b/libjava/HACKING @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ tree. To import a new release: - Check out a classpath snapshot + I use 'cvs export' for this. Make a tag to ensure future hackers + know exactly what revision was checked out; tags are of the form + 'libgcj-import-DATE'. - Use auto* to create configure, Makefile.in, etc You have to make sure to use the gcc libtool.m4 and gcc lt* scripts cd .../classpath @@ -41,11 +44,21 @@ possible. File additions and deletions require running scripts/makemake.tcl before running automake. - -- -If you need to add new java files to libgcj then you have to edit the -Makefile.am file in the top (libjava) directory. And run automake. +In general you should not make any changes in the classpath/ +directory. Changes here should come via imports from upstream. +However, there are two (known) exceptions to this rule: + +* In an emergency, such as a bootstrap breakage, it is ok to commit a + patch provided that the problem is resolved (by fixing a compiler + bug or fixing the Classpath bug upstream) somehow and the resolution + is later checked in (erasing the local diff). + +* On a release branch to fix a bug, where a full-scale import of + Classpath is not advisable. + +-- If you add a class to java.lang, java.io, or java.util (including sub-packages, like java.lang.ref). @@ -64,4 +77,3 @@ If you're generating a patch there is a program you can get to do an offline `cvs add' (it will fake an `add' if you don't have write permission yet). Then you can use `cvs diff -N' to generate the patch. See http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/ - |