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

[Martijn Verburg]

Sounds good - I'm trying it at home over the weekend - can't make back the
tower this time I'm afraid :-(

On Friday, 12 February 2016, Chris Newland <chris at chrisnewland.com> wrote:

> Hi Martijn,
>
> I'll take a swing at this at HackTheTower tomorrow if I can't make headway
> with GroovyFX+jigsaw due to maven/gradle issues.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 12 Feb 2016, at 11:52, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Get into it :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Martijn
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com <javascript:;>>
> > 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 <javascript:;>,
> hotspot-runtime-dev at openjdk.java.net <javascript:;>,
> > hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net <javascript:;>,
> hotspot-gc-dev at openjdk.java.net <javascript:;>
> > Cc: build-infra-dev at openjdk.java.net <javascript:;>
> >
> >
> > ... 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 <javascript:;>. Note that this is
> different from the
> > Build Group mailing list build-dev at openjdk.java.net <javascript:;>.
> >
> > 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
>


-- 
Cheers, Martijn (Sent from Gmail Mobile)