Fwd: WE'RE HIRING: Beta testers for the new hotspot build system!

[Martijn Verburg]

Get into it :-)

Cheers,
Martijn

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>
Date: 12 February 2016 at 12:03
Subject: WE'RE HIRING: Beta testers for the new hotspot build system!
To: hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net, hotspot-runtime-dev at openjdk.java.net,
hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net, hotspot-gc-dev at openjdk.java.net
Cc: build-infra-dev at openjdk.java.net


... or, well, more to the truth, we're *not* hiring. At least not in the
sense that we'll pay you money. But we do want beta testers anyway! :-)
Your reward will be a new build system that will work on the systems and
configurations you care about, right out of the box, and a fuzzy warm
feeling.

A document that describes how to try out the new build system, and that
answers many questions that you might have, is here:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/docs/new-hotspot-build.html

The TL;DR:

   1.

   Clone the project forest.

   hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/build-infra/jdk9 build-infra-jdk9
   cd build-infra-jdk9 && bash get_source.sh [additional closed url]

   2.

   The build infra project is constantly on the move. The safest way to get
   to a working state is by using a tag, e.g. build-infra-beta-01.

   bash common/bin/hgforest.sh update -r build-infra-beta-01

   3.

   Build it. This works just as the with old build.

   bash configure && make


If you have questions or want to report bugs or enhancement requests,
please direct them to the build-infra project list
build-infra-dev at openjdk.java.net. Note that this is different from the
Build Group mailing list build-dev at openjdk.java.net.

Before asking questions, please check
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/docs/new-hotspot-build.html to see if they
have been answered there first.

/Magnus