OpenJDK on Solaris Dev Express 1/2008?

[Christian Thalinger]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 08:28 -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> I'm not sure what the state of the Makefiles are for building with gcc
> on Solaris. It has been done in the past, from the artifacts I see in the
> Makefiles, however, it won't 'just build', it will take some changes.
> 
> In general we focus on one compiler set per OS, the one that has
> the most potential for performance and makes the most sense for that OS.
> Takes a great deal of testing and performance tests to 'validate' that
> even a particular release of a compiler isn't regressing us.
> 
> We will be going through that validation process as we change our
> default JDK7 compilers to SS12 on Solaris, gcc4 on Linux, and
> VS2008 on Windows.

I see.  Maybe I can give it try someday.

- twisti