mkdemo and NO_IMAGES

Kelly O'Hair Kelly.Ohair at Sun.COM
Mon Jun 8 15:43:18 UTC 2009



Max (Weijun) Wang wrote:
> Two questions:
> 
> 1. Why is the demo directory always rebuilt even if I haven't touched it?

The demos are built with the jdk you just created, so in theory, any change
to the built jdk would require all the demos to be rebuilt.
Not sure how it detects this 'jdk has changed', would need to look closer at it.

> 
> 2. Even if I set NO_IMAGES=true, why is the images still built?
> 

Try also setting DEV_ONLY=true. I think these are tied together for some
historic reason.

-kto

> I run make on the top directory, i.e. the control build.
> 
> Thanks
> Max
> 



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